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who forwarded an evolutionist account of kinship
Lewis Henry Morgan
what was the name of Lewis Henry Morgan’s evolutionist account of kinship
systems of consanguinity and affinity
how did LHM describe kinship systems not based on blood
classificatory, primitive
which tribe did LHM study
Iroquois
who suggested the idea of kinship as processual ad defined as ‘relatedness’
Janet Carsten
who did Carsten study
the Malays of Langkawi
in what ways do the Malays of Langkawi create kinship (Carsten)
through shared food, homes, milk and blood
does the distinction between biology and sociality hold among the Malays (Carsten)
no
what do the Malays of Lamgkawi say about blood, flesh and food, showing the complex relationships between the three (direct quote from interview subject)
blood, flesh come from cooked rice
who does relatedness operate through among the malays (Carsten)
axis of relatedness operates through women
who writes an ethnography on gender and personhood among the Vezo of madagascar
Rita Astuti
how do the Vezo understand personhood (Astuti)
not a fixed state of being but rather a way of doing which people perform
how could the vezo understanding of personhood be described
non-essentialist
who gives an anthropological account of surrogate motherhood
Helena Ragone
why does surrogate motherhood somewhat support the idea that kinship is about blood
chosen over adoption because it means at least one parent is a blood relative of the child
how does surrogacy challenge biogenetic kinship
deemphasizes the mothers biogenetic tie and stresses the social process of motherhood
what percent of surrogate parents opt for a paternal DNA test when the baby is born, despite high chances there could have been a mix up - importance of blood reduced once more
2%
who writes an ethnography of mixed race children in South london
Benson
what is there a common pattern of among mixed race children
hostility towards their ethnic identity and own kin
what portion of childrne displayed hostility towrads their own race
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quote by one of the mized race children, Shannon, about her own sister
Julie’s black but I’m not
what does the mixed race children ethnography support about kinship
conflict between the children’s own experiences of race and kin and the structural expectations of kinship
what proportion of the households were able to develop racially composite kinship networks
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who wrote the book ‘found families’ about gay and lesbian kinship
Kath Weston
historically, how have LGBT people been understood in relation to kinship and why
rejected from it, emphasis placed on procreation
since LHM< what have most scholarly studies seen as kinshp’s ultimate referrent, which is challenged by LGBT groups
procreation
what do gay people define their chosen families in opposition to
biological ties
what form do the ‘found families’ tend to take, and who does this resemble
fluid, resembles african american, american indian and white working class kinship
who looks at the process of transnational adoption in Norway
Signe Howell
how does Howell define ‘kinning’
a process by which any previously unconnected person is brought into a significant and permanent relationship expressed as a kin idiom
how do adoptee parents and children ‘recreate’ each other as part of the adopted process (Howell)
intersubjectively
what term does Howell give to the transmission of a sense of belonging to transnational adopted children
transubstantiation
how could Howell’s concept of kinship be understood
as processual, about relatedness
how does the rest of Norway emphasise and understand kinship (hegemonic vs personal udnerstanding)
emphasizes blood and its relational qualities
which tribe in Ecuador make no dostinction between adopted vs biological children
Zumbagao tribe
what do parents in Norway often take their adopted children on, though it doesnt really actually stress biological roots
motherland tours
which theorist highlights the issue with seeing kinship as purely processual, instead advocating for a dialectic understanding
daniel miller
what examples does Miller look at to show the ways in which kinship is both fluid and fixed to societa; standard and expectations
english inheritances, Filipino mothers
for Miller, what is there an exacerbation between
idealised norms of kinship and actual relationships at play
what contradiction does Miller suggest the word ‘relationship’ implies
a basic contradiction between its own normative aspect and the actual entity that constitutes that person at the time
which other post-structuralist, feminist theorist challenged Western, patriarchal concepts of kinship and has been associated with the idea of relatedness
marilyn strathern
who denied the existence of a universal kin overall and said we couldn’t even study kinship, emphasising its symbolic aspects
schneider