Kinship Systems

Study Course Description

Course Description Statuss:Approved

Course Description Version:5.00

Study Course Accepted:08.03.2024 13:48:18

Study Course Information
Course Code:		KSK_024		LQF level:		Level 7
Credit Points:		4.00		ECTS:		6.00
Branch of Science:		Sociology; Social Anthropology		Target Audience:		Social Anthropology
Study Course Supervisor
Course Supervisor:		Klāvs Sedlenieks
Study Course Implementer
Structural Unit:		Faculty of Social Sciences
The Head of Structural Unit:
Contacts:		Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szfrsu[pnkts]lv
Study Course Planning
Full-Time - Semester No.1
Lectures (count)		6	Lecture Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Lectures		12
Classes (count)		18	Class Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Classes		36
Total Contact Hours								48
Study course description
Preliminary Knowledge:
Sociology, Philosophy.
Objective:
To provide an overview of the historical development and recent theories of kinship as a field of research.
Topic Layout (Full-Time)
No.	Topic			Type of Implementation		Number	Venue
1	Introduction to Kinship Issues in Anthropology			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
2	The Origins of Kinship Research – An Evolutionary Approach			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
3	Types of Kinship Terminology			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
4	Succession Theory in Kinship			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
5	Succession Theory in Anthropology			Classes		2.00	auditorium
6	Alliance Theory			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
7	New Reproductive Theories and Kinship			Lectures		0.50	auditorium
				Classes		3.00	auditorium
8	Kinship in Modern Latvia			Lectures		0.50	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
9	Presentations of Students’ Individual Work			Classes		3.00	auditorium
Assessment
Unaided Work:
Students must study the required readings independently and prepare the required papers and oral presentations. Students prepare for seminars independently, visit the library and use available digital resources to prepare for face-to-face classes. The specific objectives are updated annually and described on the e-learning platform. To assess the overall quality of the study course, the student must complete the course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal.
Assessment Criteria:
Written exam; independent writings; class attendance.
Final Examination (Full-Time):		Exam (Written)
Final Examination (Part-Time):
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:		As a result of completing the study course, students will acquire knowledge of the history of kinship studies in social anthropology, the most important ethnographic and theoretical studies, as well as contemporary research trends, and will be able to conduct research independently after successful completion of the course.
Skills:		Students learn to apply kinship studies creatively in the interpretation and analysis of cultures and societies.
Competencies:		Students will acquire competences in the use of types of kinship terminology and will be able to understand modern kinship.
Bibliography
No.	Reference
Required Reading
1	Abu-Lughod, L. 1993. Writing women’s worlds. 1. nodaļa. Berkeley, Los Angelos. University of California Press
2	Barnes, J.A. 1962. African models in the New Guinea highlands. Man 62:5-9
3	Beitners, D. 2020. Traditional Latvian Culture: Pragmatism and Love. Love and Law in Europe. Aldershot.121. – 126.
4	Blackwood, E. 2000. Webs of power: women, kin and community in a Sumatran village. Ievads un 3. nodaļa. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
5	Bloch, M. 1997. How we think they think. Westview Press
6	Campbell, J. 1963. The kindred in a Greek mountain community. In Mediterranean countrymen: essays in the social anthropology of the Mediterranean (ed. J. Pitt-Rivers) Paris, Mouton.
7	Cannell, F. 1999. Power and intimacy in the Christian Phillipines. 1. nodaļa. Cambridge University Press
8	Carsten, J., Hugh-Jones S. (eds) 1995. About the house: Levi-Strauss and beyond.
9	Carsten, J. 2004. After Kinship. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
10	Carsten, J. (ed). 2000. Cultures of relatedness, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press
11	Delaney, C. 1995. Father State, Motherland and the Birth of Modern Turkely, in S. Yanagisako, C. Delaney (ed. ) Naturalizing Power, New York, London, Routledge.
12	Engels, F. 1846. Ģimenes, privātīpašuma un valsts izcelšanās: sakarā ar L.H. Morgana pētījumiem. 3. nodaļa Marksa-Engelsa-Ļeņina institūts, Rīga, LVI (latviešu plūsmai)
13	Fortes, M. Evans-Pritchard, E. (ed) 1940. African political systems. London, New York, Toronto. Oxford University Press
14	Fortes, M. 2020. The web of kinship among the Tallensi. 1. un 2. nodaļa. London
15	Eriksen, T.H. 2015. Small Places, Large Issues. An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. 6. nodaļa. Kinship as Descent, 7. nodaļa Marriage and Alliance” London, Pluto Press. 93. – 123.
16	Freeman, J.D. 1958. The family system of the Iban of Borneo. In J. Goody (ed.) The developmental cycle in domestic groups.
17	Holy, L. Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship. 1996, London, Pluto Press
18	Gilbert. D. 1981. Cognatic descent groups in Upper Class Lima. American Ethnologist 8L 939-58.
19	Ķīlis, Roberts, Vai vienai laulībai dzīve par garu? Sarunas Par To, Nr.1 (2005, 14.apr.), 22.-23.lpp. (latviešu plūsmai)
20	Kendall, L. 1996. Getting married in Korea. 3. nodaļa. University of California Press
21	Leach, E. 1970. Political systems of Highland Burma. Ievads, 4 un 5 nodaļa, London, New York, Continuum
22	Lévi-Strauss, C.1987. Anthropology and Myth (The concept of House un On Indonesia), Blackwell
23	Lévi-Strauss, C.1971. The elementary structures of kinship (8. un 9. nodaļa), Beacon Press
24	Lévi-Strauss, C.1985. “The family” in The view from afar, University Of Chicago Press
25	McKinnon, S. 1991. From a shattered sun: hierarchy, gender and alliance in the Tanimbar islands. 2. nodaļa. University of Wisconsin Press
26	Myers. F. 1986. Pintupi country. Pintupi self. 3., 5., 6. nodaļa, Smithsonian Institution Press, Wash., D.C.
27	Richards, A. 1950. Some type of family Structure among the central Bantu in A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and Daryll Forde, eds., African systems of kinship and marriage. London: Oxford University Press
28	Sanday, P.R. 1990. Androcentric and matrifocal representation in Minangkabau Ideology. In Beyond the second sex: new directions in the anthropology of gender (ed). P.R. Sanday, R. Goodenaugh. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press
29	Schneider, D.M. 1984. A critique of the study of kinship. Ievads, 14., 15. un 16. nodaļa, University of Michigan Press
30	Strathern, A. 2004. Kinship, descent and locality: some New Guinea examples in The Character of kinship (ed.) J. Goody, Cambridge University Press
31	Strathern, M. 1992. After Nature: English kinship in the late twentieth century. 1. nodaļa “Individuality and Diversity” Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
32	Thune, C.E. 1989. Death and matrilineal reincoporation on Normanby island in F.H. Damon, R. Wagner (eds) Death rituals and life in the societies of Kula the ring, Northern Illinois University Press.
33	Trautmann, T. 1987. A lawyer among the Iroquois. 3. nodaļa Lewis Henry Morgan and the invention of kinship, Berkeley. University of California Press
34	Trawick, M. 1990. Notes on love in Tamil family Chapter 4. University of California Press
35	Weston, K. 1997. Families we choose: lesbians, gays, kinships. 7. nodaļa Parenting in the age of AIDS. 165. – 193.