ANTH/WMGS 326 Issues in the Anthropology of Kinship

Dr. Susan Vincent

Winter 2018 course website

Course Outline (includes essay assignment questions)

Course Assignment Resources   

• Department of Anthropology essay style resources
• Essay check list
  
• Beginning and final exam question
• Template for midterm test (precise wording of instructions may change, if they need to be clearer and more accurate)
• Default sources for essay
• Template for final exam (precise wording may change if it needs to be clearer and more accurate.)
  

Topic Outlines

• Miller, Jackson and kin terms and conventions
• The impact of colonialism on kinship: Peers & Brown; Holmes
• The popularity of genealogy: Cannell
• New reproductive technologies: Pande and Inhorn
• State and kinship: Zhang and Krause & Marchesi
• Incest: Niehaus
• Howell and Marre
• Pelka; Lewin
• Faier
• Suzuki
• Arranged marriages: Pande
• Bourdieu
• Njambi and O'Brien
• Charsley and Liversage
• Salcido and Adelman
• Lewis

• Basic kinship terms and conventions

Links

• Kinship basics: University of Manitoba tutorial

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