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 MIDTERM GRADES SPRING 2023 |
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| Week 1. Introduction: What is Kinship about? |
 Video about Kinship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOi2c2d3_Lk |
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 Lévi-Strauss Claude. Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949).Ch.1. Nature and Culture. |
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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. |
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Syllabus Gender, Family and Kinship. Spring 2023 |
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 Week 1. Introduction |
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| Week 2. A History of Kinship Studies: from Lewis Morgan to Claude Levi Strauss |
 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 |
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Stone l. (2010). Kinship and Evolutionary Theory. Kin Recognition in Kinship and Gender, Westview Press,229-258. |
Read Kinship and evolution, 29-50 |
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| Week 3. Understanding Gender |
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. |
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Stone l. Kinship and Evolutionary Theory. Kin Recognition in Kinship and Gender, Westview Press, 2010, 29-50. |
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WEEK 2. |
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http://www.nilitavachani.com/when-mother-comes-home-for-christmas.html |
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Film Women in modern Japan |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dsD6FWfZHE
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| Week 4. How culture shapes gender? |
S DE BEAUVOIR. The Second Sex - Libcom.orghttps://libcom.org › files › 1949_simone-de-beau...PDF, read two Introductions |
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P.J. Caplan & J. B. Caplan. Thinking Critically about Research on Sex and Gender. NY: Harper Collins, 1994, Introduction |
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Week 3. |
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QUIZ ON WEEK 4. GRADES |
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| Week 5. Marriage: forms, rules and types |
Stone l. (2010). Kinship and Gender, Westview Press, 190-207 |
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Radcliff-Brown. (2013). The Andaman Islanders, Cambridge Un-ty Press, 2013. Ch. Social organization |
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Week 5. Marriage and Family |
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FILM ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ANDAMANESE PEOPLE |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08N6cxH377U
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| Week 6. Contemporary marriage and its variations |
Gates Gary. Marriage and Family: LGBT Individuals and Same-Sex Couples, VOL. 25 / NO. 2 (2015), pp.67-87. (http://www.futureofchildren.org/pdf) |
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Bosrup J. (2004). The economics of polygamy in An Anthropological Reader, edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone, Malden&Oxford:Blackwell |
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Film Watching. Will you Marry me in Afirca? |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKPgX8sHqEM |
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| Week 7. The Problem of Incest |
Levi-Strauss, C. The Elementary Structures of Kinship, ch.2. |
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Readi. D. (2014). Incest Taboos and Kinship: A Biological or a Cultural Story? In Reviews in Anthropology, 43:150-175. |
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| Week 8.The Power of Patriliniality and Matriliniality |
Stone l. (2010). Kinship and Gender, Westview Press, 69-117 |
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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)
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| Week 9. Kinship, Social Structures and Politics |
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. |
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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. |
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| Week 10. Kinship and Household |
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. |
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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. |
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Week.10. Kinship and household |
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| Week 11. The Role of Kinship among Indigenous Communities |
Malinowski, B. The Argonauts of the Western Pacific, L.1922. Ch.Kula. |
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Week 11. The role of Kinship among Indigenous Communities |
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The life with Massai |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemEnz1YOr4
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| Week 12. Kinship and Family in Central and South Asia |
Tokhtakhodjaeva M. Society and Family in Uzbekistan in Polish Sociological Review, No. 118 (1997), pp. 149-165. |
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Kleinbach, R. Bride-Kidnapping in Kyrgyz Republic in International Journal of Central Asian Studies, Vol.4, (1999), at Bride-kidnapping%20in%20Kyrgyzstan.pdf |
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Week 12. Marriage and family in Central Asia (the case of Uzbekistan) |
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| Week 13. Kinship and Family in Contemporary Western World: the case of the USA |
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 |
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| Week 14. New Reproductive Technologies and Kinship |
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. |
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Week.14. |
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| Kinship and Family in the Context of Globalization |
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. |
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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. |
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