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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dr Roger Just.
Prerequisite: Normally one first year Anthropology subject (12.5 points).
Contact: Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
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.
Content:
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.
Assessment:
Written work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
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