16.7 2nd and 3rd years Dr Roger Just. Normally one first year Anthropology subject (12.5 points). First semester Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week. Students completing this subject should:

• be well acquainted with the major forms of kinship reckoning and family organization of the world's societies;
• have a general understanding of the principal theoretical frameworks within which ethnologists have studied kinship and family;
• have a general understanding of the ethnographically variable relationship between kinship and family and the wider issues of social identity, gender roles, economic and political organization and social structure.

The comparative study of kinship and family in western and non-western societies as both forms of social structure and primary sites of sentimental and affective states. Written work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.