Kinship Anthropology
Code
711001058
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
José Mapril
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Throughout the semester the students should become familiarised with the vocabulary of kinship, with the classic and structuring debates within this theme, and finally the contemporary approaches to the study of kinship and family. This way, students are expected to end the semester with a global view of this area of studies
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. The comtemporary relevance of kinship
2. The centrality of kinship
3. The vocabulary of kinship
4. Theories of kinship: the ancestors
5. Theories of kinship: A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
6. Theories of kinship: Claude Lévi- Strauss
7. Theories of kinship: David Schneider
8. New approaches to kinship: Gender, processes, substances and agencies
9. Kinship as process
10. Everyday kinhip
11. Gender and kinship
12. Feminine/masculine
13. Families and domestic units
14. Transnational Families and Marriages
15. Adoptions
16. Biotecnologies
17. Kinship and political economy
Bibliography
Astuti, Rita, 2000, «Kindreds and descent groups: new perspectives from Madagascar» in Carsten, Janet, ed., Cultures of Relatedness: New
approaches to the study of kinship, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 90-103
Augé, Marc, coord. , 1975, Os Domínios do Parentesco, Lisboa, Edições 70, pp. 21-34, 35-43 e 44-47
Bodenhorn, Barbara, 2000, «´He used to be my relative´: exploring the bases of relatedness among the Inupiat of Northern Alaska» in Carsten,
Janet, ed., Cultures of Relatedness: New approaches to the study of kinship, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 128-148
Cardeira da Silva, Maria, 1997, «O Islão plástico: transformações da intimidade em contexto popular marroquino», Etnográfica, 1(1), pp.57-72
Carsten, Janet, 1995, «The substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth: feeding, personhood and relatedness among Malays in Pulau
Langkawi», American Ethnologist, 22, pp. 223-241
Teaching method
The course will have a theoretical section presented by the lecturer and seminars presented by the students.
Evaluation method
The evaluation is done with three
elements:
(i) A final exam (50% of the final grade)
(ii) Seminar (40% of the final grade)
(iii) Frequency and pariticipation in class (10% of the final grade)