Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Institute of Ethnography and Folklore
- Code
- BBN-NEP-602.8
- Title
- Optional course of the Department of Ethnology: Anthropology of kinship
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of the seminar is to provide an introduction to the fundamental issues into the study of kinship. Throughout the semester, students will be introduced to research problems, such as descent and marriage systems, kin groups and the development of kinship studies. In order to provide an overview on these issues during the semester the development of kinship studies in anthropological research will be discussed. During the course, students not only listen to lectures, but also work independently on the bibliography provided.
- Course content
- Kinship as a cultural system. Kinship as a social system 1. Kinship as a social system 2. Kinship as descent and political system. Kinship as a marriage system Kinship as a symbolic system Culturalist perspective on kinship research The "New Kinship Research" 1. The "New Kinship Research" 2. Discussion of basic concepts (descent, marriage, family, etc.) Representing and measuring kinship Summary. Review of what has been discussed during the semester
- Assessment method
- Questions on exams 1. What is descent? Why is it important to consider descent systems when researching kinship – and why not? How ideas about descent have changed in anthropology 2. What is marriage? Why is it important to study marriage in kinship research – and why not? How perspectives on marriage have changed in anthropology. 3. Kinship terminology. What is kinship terminology? What types of terminological systems are known, and what do they express (descent and marriage relationships)? 4. The idea of substance in kinship. How to understand the substance of kin realtions? What research trends are associated with its use? 5. Matrilineal kin groups. How matrilineal kin reckoning creates kin groups? 6. Questions of partilineal descent. What are the advantages and disadvantages? 7. What is culturalist kinship research? What methods have its proponents used? What research outcomes did they provide? 8. What is the basic unit, the elementary form of kinship? Comparison of Lévi-Strauss, Radcliffe-Brown, Tönnies. Why is this question important? 9. Types of kinship groups. Family, lineage, clan, tribe. What are the differences and similarities between them? 10. Describe the main issues and methods of the three major schools of kinship research following culturalist kinship studies.
- Bibliography
- Bibliography Bodrogi Tibor 1962 Társadalmak születése. Budapest BODROGI Tibor 1977 A magyar és az „uráli rokonsági rendszer” viszonyának kérdéséhez. Népi Kultúra–Népi Társadalom X. 9–33. DUMONT, Louis 2002 Bevezetés két szociálantropológiai elméletbe: leszármazási csoportok és házassági szövetség. Budapest Faragó Tamás 1983 Háztartás, család, rokonság. Jegyzetek a legújabb család- és rokonságkutatási eredmények alapján. Ethnographia XCIV. 216–254. MORGAN, Lewis Henry 1961 Az ősi társadalom. Budapest MORVAY Judit 1966 A had és nemzetség fogalmának körülhatárolása. Ethnographia. LXXVII. 4. 481–493. Fél Edit 1944 A nagycsalád és jogszokásai a komárommegyei Martoson. (Kisalföldi Közlemények I. sorozat 2.) Budapest MORVAY Judit 1956/1981 Asszonyok a nagycsaládban. A mátraalji palóc asszonyok élete a múlt század második felében. 2. kiad. (Néprajzi tanulmányok) Budapest Penavin Olga 1981 A nagycsaládszervezet Szlavóniában. (Kórógyon.) Újvidék LŐRINCZI J. Réka 1980 A magyar rokonsági elnevezések rendszerének változásai. Bukarest YOUNG, Michael – WILLMOTT, Peter 1999 Család és rokonság Kelet-Londonban. Budapest MEAD, Margaret 2003 Férfi és nő. A két nem viszonya a változó világban. Budapest