Kinship Essay
Discuss ways in which kinship ties are or are not important in YOUR family, community and society. Explain your views giving examples, discussing nuclear and extended households, descent principles and marriage types. Cite Haviland Chapters 9 and 10 with page numbers. Interviewing family members or thinking about how much “kinship work” you do in a usual week compared to a key holiday period may help with this question. How might your experience of kinship be different if you lived in a society with unilinear kin groups? Use your Family Tree exercise to help you do this essay.
LINK toYour Family Tree Exercise
Write 2-3 pages (at least 500 words.
Directions for citing sources and for submitting your response:
The use of the words I or me is fine when referring to your own experiences and ideas. If you use an author’s direct words, or almost their direct words, quotes must be used and the source (last name of author, most recent year of publication and page number from the text) must be given. For example, “Anthropology is the study of humankind in all times and places.” (Haviland 2017, 3). If re-written, mostly in your own words, you omit the quotes but DO give the author, date, and page number. When discussing a video, give the title. For a web source, give a brief address and use quotes if quoting. For example: (americananthro.org, 1/3).
SUBMIT by copy and paste into the text box . You may also submit a docx. I suggest submitting before this deadline so that you have time to fix any submit issues. It is a good idea to write a Word document on your computer and then copy and paste it into the text box for the assignment. Save a copy of ALL your written assignments on your computer!
This assignment is due by SATURDAY October 24..
This assignment will receive a letter grade.
