ANTH 513
Formal Analysis of Kinship

Credit:  2 or 4 hours.


Survey of a variety of the world's systems of kinship, marriage, and family organization; concentration on the distinctive properties of kinship systems as a species of social structure, on the formal apparatus for describing and understanding them and their functions, and on the theory of kinship that arises from the use of such formal apparatus. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.