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who forwarded an evolutionist account of kinship

Lewis Henry Morgan

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what was the name of Lewis Henry Morgan’s evolutionist account of kinship

systems of consanguinity and affinity

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how did LHM describe kinship systems not based on blood

classificatory, primitive

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which tribe did LHM study

Iroquois

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who suggested the idea of kinship as processual ad defined as ‘relatedness’

Janet Carsten

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who did Carsten study

the Malays of Langkawi

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in what ways do the Malays of Langkawi create kinship (Carsten)

through shared food, homes, milk and blood

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does the distinction between biology and sociality hold among the Malays (Carsten)

no

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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

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who does relatedness operate through among the malays (Carsten)

axis of relatedness operates through women

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who writes an ethnography on gender and personhood among the Vezo of madagascar

Rita Astuti

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how do the Vezo understand personhood (Astuti)

not a fixed state of being but rather a way of doing which people perform

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how could the vezo understanding of personhood be described

non-essentialist

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who gives an anthropological account of surrogate motherhood

Helena Ragone

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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

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how does surrogacy challenge biogenetic kinship

deemphasizes the mothers biogenetic tie and stresses the social process of motherhood

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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%

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who writes an ethnography of mixed race children in South london

Benson

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what is there a common pattern of among mixed race children

hostility towards their ethnic identity and own kin

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what portion of childrne displayed hostility towrads their own race

10/27

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quote by one of the mized race children, Shannon, about her own sister

Julie’s black but I’m not

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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

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what proportion of the households were able to develop racially composite kinship networks

2/18

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who wrote the book ‘found families’ about gay and lesbian kinship

Kath Weston

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historically, how have LGBT people been understood in relation to kinship and why

rejected from it, emphasis placed on procreation

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since LHM< what have most scholarly studies seen as kinshp’s ultimate referrent, which is challenged by LGBT groups

procreation

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what do gay people define their chosen families in opposition to

biological ties

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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

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who looks at the process of transnational adoption in Norway

Signe Howell

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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

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how do adoptee parents and children ‘recreate’ each other as part of the adopted process (Howell)

intersubjectively

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what term does Howell give to the transmission of a sense of belonging to transnational adopted children

transubstantiation

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how could Howell’s concept of kinship be understood

as processual, about relatedness

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how does the rest of Norway emphasise and understand kinship (hegemonic vs personal udnerstanding)

emphasizes blood and its relational qualities

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which tribe in Ecuador make no dostinction between adopted vs biological children

Zumbagao tribe

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what do parents in Norway often take their adopted children on, though it doesnt really actually stress biological roots

motherland tours

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which theorist highlights the issue with seeing kinship as purely processual, instead advocating for a dialectic understanding

daniel miller

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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

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for Miller, what is there an exacerbation between

idealised norms of kinship and actual relationships at play

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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

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which other post-structuralist, feminist theorist challenged Western, patriarchal concepts of kinship and has been associated with the idea of relatedness

marilyn strathern

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who denied the existence of a universal kin overall and said we couldn’t even study kinship, emphasising its symbolic aspects

schneider