Abreviations of kin relations

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Abreviations of kin relations
Brian Schwimmer
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PatrilinealKin diagrams
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21 - FBS
10 - FF
19 - MZD
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MatrilinealKin diagrams
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Xaviers Ancestors
Carol Hawks
Earnie Faler
Walter King
Bruce
Roger
Paul
Maureen
David King
Karen
Lillis Jacobs King
Trevor King
Kirsten Benson King
Alex King
Christina Kincaid
Xavier King
Joshua King
Zachary King
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Lévi-Strauss Elementary Structures of Kinship

• Instead of looking a descent as the primary mover
  of sociality, look at marriage.
• Impression of the poor bachelor among Bororo
• Looking at kin terminology (terms of address)
  gives us a good first insight into the system,
  the classification of people as relatives.

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English kin terms
Brian Schwimmer
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Hawaiian Kin Terms
Brian Schwimmer
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Iroquois Kin Term System
Brian Schwimmer
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Cultural systems and social systems

• Schneider analyses American kinship as a cultural
  system
• Approach shared by Clifford Geertz
• Geertzs definition of culture
• "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings
  embodied in symbols, a system of inherited
  conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means
  of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop
  their knowledge about and attitudes toward life."

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Models of and models for

• Models of -
• Theory of areodynamics is a model of how birds
  and airplanes fly.
• This course provides models of rituals, social
  systems, languages
• Kinship systems
• Model for -
• Blueprints for a Boeing 747
• Constitutions, ideologies
• Kinship systems

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Cultural systems organize chaos

• analysis of the system of meanings embodied in
  the symbols which make up the kinship system
• relating of the system to social-structural and
  psychological processes