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Lecture Nine
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ANTB19 | Eliza Fellows, Dr. Vicus |
Lecture Nine | Section Title |
Cues
o Kinship: People who are part of your group o Affine: People from the group you marry.
o Cross Cousin:offspring of opposite gender siblings
o Nature- domain of the continuous: the rules are universal
o Culture: on the other hand is the domain of the Discontinuous ex. Sounds are natural, but can be changed into other point of views, we change things for our POV
o Prohibition of incest- limit case of this distinction between nature and culture, thought laws around incest are changed, through culturally context. | Course-keeping - Midterms: are being graded- will be returned asap - TUT this week.
Review of week eight - What role do the dead play in our social life? Borro social structure and the compassionate cannibalism of the Wari - Funerary services are important part of affines and kin owe to each other. Week nine Human thing to not want to have incest (very interesting)
- By making certain relations incestuos, other relations become more desirable - Kinship+Affinity= fuse two groups together - Semi-nomad group- - Due to the rules governing marraiges among the Nambikwara, the modes of address, meant that all the children in either groups were “potential spouses” of the children of the other group. - Nambikwara chiefs have to make an effort to please everyone. The elementary structure of Kinship Chapter 1. Nature and culture - The division of the world between nature and culture - For Levi-Strauss nature is the domain of the continuous: the rules are universal - Rules are made to break the continuum. Examples: sounds are natural, they exist in a continuum. - No biological explanation for the universality on the Incest taboo, the explanation needs to be found in the realm of culture. - Exchange produces alliances. Levi-Strauss argues that suppose are also exchanged so that families develop alliances with each other.
- Exchange of spouses, people are becoming debased in value, some things are elevated in value, that is treated with much respect. - Levi-Strauss is not saying that women are private property because also most nothing in theses Socities is private property. The elementary structure of kinship Chapt. 3. The universe of rules - Food for example, is never private property - When a large enemy is hunted there is a system of distribution of the meat - The distribution of spouses also has a logic: the kinship system - In fact, since spouses are also responsible for complementary forms of food production (think nimbikwara hunting/gardeninmg; male gathering; female, the system are interrelated. ” “ Chapter five - The gift. Marcel Mays’s, 1923 - Exchange of gifts; more than economic but a total social fact - Reciprocal gifts constitutes a means of transferring goods, or certain goods. - Gifts have become symbolic of our love to each other and has become mostly useless. - France- food serves the bodys needs and wine is taste for luxury. The first serving to nourish, the second to honour. |
Summary | TLDR: Socities are based on gift giving, they are periodic, reciprocity, |
Lecture Nine
Lecture None
ANTB19 | Eliza Fellows, Dr. Vicus |
Lecture Nine | Section Title |
Cues
o Kinship: People who are part of your group o Affine: People from the group you marry.
o Cross Cousin:offspring of opposite gender siblings
o Nature- domain of the continuous: the rules are universal
o Culture: on the other hand is the domain of the Discontinuous ex. Sounds are natural, but can be changed into other point of views, we change things for our POV
o Prohibition of incest- limit case of this distinction between nature and culture, thought laws around incest are changed, through culturally context. | Course-keeping - Midterms: are being graded- will be returned asap - TUT this week.
Review of week eight - What role do the dead play in our social life? Borro social structure and the compassionate cannibalism of the Wari - Funerary services are important part of affines and kin owe to each other. Week nine Human thing to not want to have incest (very interesting)
- By making certain relations incestuos, other relations become more desirable - Kinship+Affinity= fuse two groups together - Semi-nomad group- - Due to the rules governing marraiges among the Nambikwara, the modes of address, meant that all the children in either groups were “potential spouses” of the children of the other group. - Nambikwara chiefs have to make an effort to please everyone. The elementary structure of Kinship Chapter 1. Nature and culture - The division of the world between nature and culture - For Levi-Strauss nature is the domain of the continuous: the rules are universal - Rules are made to break the continuum. Examples: sounds are natural, they exist in a continuum. - No biological explanation for the universality on the Incest taboo, the explanation needs to be found in the realm of culture. - Exchange produces alliances. Levi-Strauss argues that suppose are also exchanged so that families develop alliances with each other.
- Exchange of spouses, people are becoming debased in value, some things are elevated in value, that is treated with much respect. - Levi-Strauss is not saying that women are private property because also most nothing in theses Socities is private property. The elementary structure of kinship Chapt. 3. The universe of rules - Food for example, is never private property - When a large enemy is hunted there is a system of distribution of the meat - The distribution of spouses also has a logic: the kinship system - In fact, since spouses are also responsible for complementary forms of food production (think nimbikwara hunting/gardeninmg; male gathering; female, the system are interrelated. ” “ Chapter five - The gift. Marcel Mays’s, 1923 - Exchange of gifts; more than economic but a total social fact - Reciprocal gifts constitutes a means of transferring goods, or certain goods. - Gifts have become symbolic of our love to each other and has become mostly useless. - France- food serves the bodys needs and wine is taste for luxury. The first serving to nourish, the second to honour. |
Summary | TLDR: Socities are based on gift giving, they are periodic, reciprocity, |
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