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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Anthropology

136-274/374 Sentiments and Structures: the Modalities of Kinship and Family

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Dr Roger Just

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week

Objectives:

Students completing this subject should:

  • be well acquainted with the major forms of kinship reckoning and family organisation 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 organisation 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 5000 words.
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