Section Name Description
File MIDTERM GRADES SPRING 2023
Week 1. Introduction: What is Kinship about? URL Video about Kinship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOi2c2d3_Lk
File Lévi-Strauss Claude. Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949).Ch.1. Nature and Culture.
File Schneider David M. “What Is Kinship All About? From Kinship and Family” in An Anthropological Reader, edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone, Malden&Oxford:Blackwell, 2004: pp. 257-274.
File Syllabus Gender, Family and Kinship. Spring 2023
File Week 1. Introduction
Week 2. A History of Kinship Studies: from Lewis Morgan to Claude Levi Strauss Page Morgan. L. Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family

https://books.google.kg/books/about/Systems_of_Consanguinity_and_Affinity_of.html?id=qNJFAAAAcAAJ&redir_esc=y

Read Chapter. Descriptive kinship 
File Stone l. (2010). Kinship and Evolutionary Theory. Kin Recognition in Kinship and Gender, Westview Press,229-258.

Read Kinship and evolution, 29-50
Week 3. Understanding Gender File Ehrenreich B. and Hochschild P. eds., Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy, New York: Henry Holt and Company. (2002), pp. 115-141.
File Stone l. Kinship and Evolutionary Theory. Kin Recognition in Kinship and Gender, Westview Press, 2010, 29-50.
File WEEK 2.
URL http://www.nilitavachani.com/when-mother-comes-home-for-christmas.html
URL Film Women in modern Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dsD6FWfZHE
Week 4. How culture shapes gender? File S DE BEAUVOIR. The Second Sex - Libcom.orghttps://libcom.org › files › 1949_simone-de-beau...PDF, read two Introductions
File P.J. Caplan & J. B. Caplan. Thinking Critically about Research on Sex and Gender. NY: Harper Collins, 1994, Introduction
File Week 3.
File QUIZ ON WEEK 4. GRADES
Week 5. Marriage: forms, rules and types File Stone l. (2010). Kinship and Gender, Westview Press, 190-207
File Radcliff-Brown. (2013). The Andaman Islanders, Cambridge Un-ty Press, 2013. Ch. Social organization
File Week 5. Marriage and Family
URL FILM ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ANDAMANESE PEOPLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08N6cxH377U
Week 6. Contemporary marriage and its variations File Gates Gary. Marriage and Family: LGBT Individuals and Same-Sex Couples, VOL. 25 / NO. 2 (2015), pp.67-87. (http://www.futureofchildren.org/pdf)
File Bosrup J. (2004). The economics of polygamy in An Anthropological Reader, edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone, Malden&Oxford:Blackwell
Page Film Watching. Will you Marry me in Afirca?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKPgX8sHqEM
Week 7. The Problem of Incest File Levi-Strauss, C. The Elementary Structures of Kinship, ch.2.
File Readi. D. (2014). Incest Taboos and Kinship: A Biological or a Cultural Story? In Reviews in Anthropology, 43:150-175.
Week 8.The Power of Patriliniality and Matriliniality File Stone l. (2010). Kinship and Gender, Westview Press, 69-117
Page Evans-Pritchard E.E. The Nuer of the Southern Sudan in Kinship and Family, pp.87-73

https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/sai/SOSANT1000/h14/pensumliste/evans-pritchard_the_nuer.pdf)


Week 9. Kinship, Social Structures and Politics File Stone l. (2010). Kinship and Gender, Westview Press. Case 6: The Beng, p. 160; Case 7: The Kwaio p. 174; Case 8: The Huli, p. 178.
File Jorio, R. Women’s Organizations, the Ideology of Kinship, and the State in Post-independent Mali, in An Anthropological Reader, edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone, Malden&Oxford:Blackwell, (2004), pp.322-336.
Week 10. Kinship and Household File Robert, S. “Parenting from Separate Households: A Cultural Perspective” in An Anthropological Reader, edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone, Malden&Oxford:Blackwell, 2004, pp.229-245.
File Ehrlich A. “Power, Control and Mother-in law Problem” in An Anthropological Reader, edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone, Malden&Oxford:Blackwell, 2004, pp.175-183.
File Week.10. Kinship and household
Week 11. The Role of Kinship among Indigenous Communities File Malinowski, B. The Argonauts of the Western Pacific, L.1922. Ch.Kula.
File Week 11. The role of Kinship among Indigenous Communities
URL The life with Massai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemEnz1YOr4
Week 12. Kinship and Family in Central and South Asia File Tokhtakhodjaeva M. Society and Family in Uzbekistan in Polish Sociological Review, No. 118 (1997), pp. 149-165.
File Kleinbach, R. Bride-Kidnapping in Kyrgyz Republic in International Journal of Central Asian Studies, Vol.4, (1999), at Bride-kidnapping%20in%20Kyrgyzstan.pdf
File Week 12. Marriage and family in Central Asia (the case of Uzbekistan)
Week 13. Kinship and Family in Contemporary Western World: the case of the USA File Stone l. (2010). Kinship and Gender, Westview Press, 69-117. Kinship, Gender, and Contemporary Social Problems, p. 267; Case 12: Honor Killings, p. 270; Case 13: Kinship, Gender, and Necktie Alcoholics in Japan, p. 277
Week 14. New Reproductive Technologies and Kinship File Modell, J. Open Adoption: Extending Families, Exchanging Facts in Kinship and Gender, An Anthropological Reader, edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone, Malden&Oxford:Blackwell (2004), pp.227-259.
File Week.14.
Kinship and Family in the Context of Globalization File Stone L. (2010). Kinship and Gender, Westview Press. Case 12: Honor Killings, p. 270; Case 13: Kinship, Gender, and Necktie Alcoholics in Japan, p. 277.
File Collier, J., Rosaldo M.,Yanagisako S., “Is There a Family? New Anthropological Views,” in Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions, edited by Barrie Thorne with Marilyn Yalom. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992), pp. 31-48.