Anth, 13 Feb 2002

[adric]

with Jacob:

universal kinship terms:

• father


• mother


• brother


• sister


• son


• daughter


• (child)


• husband


• wife

p 69 in CP

Identify relationship to Ego, using universal kinship terms, table A:

• 1: 1's son's daughter = Ego's father's father


• 6: 1's daughter = Ego father's sister


• 10: Ego's mother


• 13: Ego's mother's brother


• 19: Ego's father's brother's son


• 20: Ego's father's brother's daughter's husband


• 33: Ego' mother's brother's daughter


• 40: Ego's brother's son


• 48: Ego's mother's brother's daughter's son

Classification Criteria:

• Gender


• Generation


• Blood or Marriage


• Lineal or Collateral


• Relative Age


• Size of Family

Social Categories:

• obligationa nd responsiblities


• rules of etiquette

analyze by each factor mother, brother, uncle, cousin

Mother: female one generation ascending blood lineal + 20 y / + one gen mother's side caretaker, bearer of children raises children, teacher nurturer protector co-provider disciplinarian healer	brother: male same generation blood collateral same age / gen , older or younger n/a bully??
uncle: male one ascending indeterminate collateral indeterminate indeterminate money, live elsewhere indeterminate	cousin: gender indeterminate indeterminate blood relative collateral indeterminate indeterminate not socially important due to lack of data in these fields

Chart: Eskimo Kin Terms p 71 by American terminology

• B: mother


• E: uncles


• H,G: cousins


• D,C: brothers, sisters


• Assumption: nuclear family: mother, father and their children


• Is this nucleus an economic unit? Yes.


• This group has the highest moral obligations to each other.


• If A dies? E may help out some, but does not pick up all responsibilities


• Nuclear familiies do not react well to loss of an adult individual.


• Too dangerous for traditional societies.

Chart: Hawaiian Kin Terms, as English

• any sibling of my parent is a father or mother


• three women fulfilling duties of mother


• mother's sister will nurse, discipline, feed, shelter children
  
• man marries a mother -> mother's husband


• flexibility in residence and employment


• if Ego's biological father dies, there is little danger as his other fathers will provide


• relatives are social safety net


• compare to social democracy, trusts, insurance

Sudanese:

• every relative is unique


• my father's eldest brother by my father's third wife ..


• highly specific system, clear obligations and rules
  
• prescribed gifts from each relative


• Han Chinese, Confucian primary relationship
  
• used by many non-literate cultures, keep all this in their head

quiz next time on readings on family terminologies

Comments

Re:

[bannanna.livejournal.com]

Well, my boyfriend has a hard drive with a RAID array that isn't supported by 7.2 and he really wants to install (he tried Mandrake and ended up screwing something up to the point that he had to reinstall XP, which is his current primary OS) I guess you just didn't expect a question like that from me, eh?

RAID?!

[adric]

Heh. I'm not even sure I knew you had a brother...

OTOH, ifyou'd been less preoccupied with brocolli at that event, you'd know that that is precisely what I was failing to do in the dining room all day long ...

*sigh*