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In society family and Kinship act as
A corporate group
Family and Kinship may
have shared
- Identity
- Economic functions
- Residence
What is basic budling
block of social organizations
Family and Kinship
Society can be described
as
A group of groups
Consanguineal
Related by descent,
"blood"
Affinal
Related by marriage
Is relatedness an imagined community
- It is not and an imagined
community but is a model
for imagined communites
Patriotism in latin
ËPater = father; "patriarchy"
ËYou are related your country as if it were your father
Avunculate
the most powerful male relative is Mother's brother
(not biological father)
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Examples of Avunculate
societies
Wendat, Haudenosaunee
Avunculate is seen in
Matrilineages
In an avuncular society,
the biological father to his
children is seen as
An affectionate playmate
Wha is kin and how is it
classified
Is biological but they are
classified differently in different societies
- Parents, and genetic
aunts and uncles are all
mother and father to child
- Cousins referred to as
Hawaiian Kinship system
brother and sister
- Children are shared
- Lives in large groups in
longhouses
- Only parents called mom
and dad
- Specific distinctions for
Sudanese Kinship System aunt and uncles on mom
sides and on dad sides
- Property is inherited on
the fathers side
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Inuit Kinship System
- Travel in nuclear family
- Food is hard to find, hunting groups
Capitalist Kinship System
Nuclear famliy
Trobriand Islands Society
- Matrilineal descent group
- Avunculate
Commensality in
Langkawi, Malaysia
- They are a descent group
because they eat together
- Some are adopted and
become apart of the commensality by eating together
Commensality is enough
to be basis for
_______________
Kinship
Lemanja
Legitimate mother = strict
and distant
Oxum
Adoptive mother = affectionate and familiar
Wetnurses in Brazil
ËPrivileged children who
are not racialize are
nursed by women of
African descent
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- The repudiation of Black
How does the Wet nurses heritage
in Brazil parallel the situa- - Many Brazilians may feel
disconnected from or retion in Brazil itself
ject their Black heritage
What do babies go
through with wetnurses in
Brazil when they are in
symbolic stage
The baby must separate
from, and oppose themselves to the nanny and
her/their African heritage
What do babies go
undergo the undifferentithrough with wetnurses in
ated experience of MothBrazil when they are in real
er-child togetherness
stage
Imagined community may
Relatedness by Language be based on sharing a language
Ethnicity is often tied to
language, so you have
an imagined community
based off it sharing this
How is ethnicity related to
"Relatedness "
Based on feeling you are
Modern linguistic ethnona- apart of a group because
tionalism
you inherited the same language and ethnicity
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Nations are defined by
Ethnicity
Ethnicity is defined by
Language
Philology
Study of languages
Indo-european language
families
· Germanic
· Slavic
· Romance
Language Families
· Indo-European - Aryan
· Semitic
· Bantu
· Malayo-Polynesian
Germanic Languages
German, English, Swedish
Slavic Languages
Russian, Polish, Bulgarian
Romance Languages
Italian, French, Romanian
Pan-nationalism
Uniting people who share
a common language or
cultural heritage, even if
they are geographically
dispersed
Language and dialect
ËIs a political concept
ËShaped by political and
social factors
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The difference between
language and dialect is
More political than linguistic
Turkish, Azero, Crimean
Tatar
Could all be understood by
each other
Uzbek, Uyghur
Could all be understood by
each other
Russian, Belarusian,
Ukrainian
Could all be understood by
each other
Serbian and Croatian is
spoken by who
Serbian for Christians
and Croatian for Catholic
Christian
Serbian and Croatian &
languages are very similar
Hindi and Urdu is an exam- but differ based off of reliple of how
gion
- All dialect is considered
Chinese
Chinses Language
- dialect is united by common script
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