Anthropology of Kinship and Gender - 1st semester
Objectives
Throughout the semester the students should become familiarised with the vocabulary of kinship, with the classic and structuring debates within this theme, and finally the contemporary approaches to the study of kinship and gender. This way, students are expected to end the semester with a global view of this area of studies.
General characterization
Code
711001064
Credits
6
Responsible teacher
Raquel Gil Carvalheira
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Prerequisites
n/a
Bibliography
Carsten, J. 2004, After Kinship, Cambridge University Press
Lévi-Strauss, C. 1982 [1949], As Estruturas Elementares do Parentesco, Vozes
Parkin, R, 1997, Kinship: An introduction to the basic concepts, Blackwell
Radcliffe-Brown, A. 1989 [1952], Estrutura e Função nas Sociedades Primitivas, Edições 70
Needham. R, 1971, (ed.) Rethinking Kinship and Marriage, Routledge
Rosaldo, M. and Lamphere, L. (eds.), Woman, Culture and Society, California University Press
Schneider, D., 1972, «What is kinship all about?» in Parkin, R et al. (eds.) 2004, Kinship and Family, Blackwell, pp. 257-274
Rosaldo, M. and Lamphere, L. (eds.), Woman, Culture and Society, California University Press
Sahlins, M., 2013, What Kinship Is
And Is Not, Chicago University Press
Yanagisako, S e Collier, J (eds) 1987, Gender and Kinship: Essays toward a unified analysis, Stanford University Press
Teaching method
The course will have a theoretical section presented by the lecturer and paper presented by the students.
Evaluation method
The evaluation has 2 elements:
(i) A final exam (60% of the final grade)
(ii) Paper (40% of the final grade)
Subject matter
1. The centrality of kinship in Anthropology
2. The imprortance of kinship in contemporary societies
3. Basic concepts
4. Kinship, relatedness and gender: main themes and authors
5. Evolutionary thought and kinship
6. Descent, social cohesion eand transmission
7. Aliance, relations and kinship
8. American kinship
9. What kinship is all about
10. Feminist critic, gender and the rebirth of kinship
11. Kinship as representation/norm and as practice
12. New studies of kinship: processes, substances and agency
13. Kinship as mutuality