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"Kinship must, ultimately, refer to biology and genealogy". Discuss.
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4) "Kinship must, ultimately, refer to biology and genealogy". Discuss. Kinship has been a central focus of study in anthropology since the discipline's existence and the need to classify the term has made it a complex yet mature area of study (Holy,1996;2). Whole ethnographies were based on the scrutiny of a society's kinship system (Evans-Pritchard 1951). However, in the past century, the centralization of kinship and its' presumed 'given facts' based on bio-genetics have become a subject of anthropological inquiry. In specific, it has been questioned in how far is the ethnography not an objectification of natural or observable facts but is it a representation of the ethnographer's values and beliefs? Schneider's seminal work on creating a discourse on kinship (Schneider, 1972 and 1984) reinforced the need to investigate how kinship operates, how kinship ties articulate themselves in a society and to move away from the functional and structural explanations of...
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