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Root number
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7642 |
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Semester
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HS2024 |
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Type of course
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Lecture |
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Allocation to subject
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Social Anthropology |
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Type of exam
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Written exam |
| Title |
Specialised Area Lecture: Introduction to the anthropology of kinship and relatedness (Sachbereich III) |
| Description |
Why do we need relatives today and why theories on kinship? What is the meaning of sex and gender for reproduction? In case we still consider families as relevant, how can we keep them together? Fast growing divorce rates in Euro-American societies, transnational marriages and adoptions as well as artificial reproduction technologies with egg and semen donations unsettle the formerly clear, yet constantly contested image of gender, family and kinship. In the course of time and according to cultural contexts different systems of social organization emerged during late modernity, the era of individualization and globalization. Nonetheless kinship organizes social interactions, (social, ethnic and national) belonging, asymmetric relations of generation and gender, political duties and rights as well as relations of heritage and property.
In this lecture we will first discuss building blocks of the society such as groups, status, rank, division of labour, descendance, alliance, residence and forms of marriage in different societies and learn how people symbolize their family relationships with various kinship terminology systems. Then, we follow key positions, critical interventions and the crises of anthropological kinship studies. The biological representations of kinship and gender – often taken for granted in European societies – will be questioned by exploring logics of substance and fictive forms of relatedness. Finally the course will give a brief overview on functionalism and structuralism introduce feminist critique on these classical contributions to gender and kinship and illustrate concepts such as relatedness and kinning to link these issues with recent challenges and current ethnographic studies. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
Sabine Strasser, Institute of Social Anthropology ✉
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ECTS
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4 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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Yes |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Wednesday 10:15-12:00 Weekly
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Wednesday 18/12/2024 10:15-12:00
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| Rooms |
Auditorium Maximum 110, Hauptgebäude H4
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