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1002:2022:5.2 [2022/08/28 18:52] – [Kinship as exchange] Ryan Schram (admin)1002:2022:5.2 [2022/08/30 15:50] (current) – [Late edition brain candy: Are your memories an out-of-body experience?] Ryan Schram (admin)
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 Historically, anthropologists have used the term **kinship** as a replacement for all the other vague terms people use. They also break this down as Historically, anthropologists have used the term **kinship** as a replacement for all the other vague terms people use. They also break this down as
  
-  * Consanguineous kin (relatives through parents). +  * **Consanguineous** kin (relatives through parents). 
-    * Kinship in general, i.e. the socially-recognized ties to other people through one’s parents. +    * **Kinship** in general, i.e. the socially-recognized ties to other people through one’s parents. 
-    * Descent specifically, a principle that determines membership in a larger group or category of people, e.g. Nuer lineages. +    * **Descent** specifically, a principle that determines membership in a larger group or category of people, e.g. Nuer lineages. 
-  * Affinal kin (relatives through marriage, or what English speakers call in-laws, e.g. father-in-law).+  * **Affinal** kin (relatives through marriage, or what English speakers call in-laws, e.g. father-in-law).
  
 ==== Kinship’s weak link is the proliferation of technical terms ==== ==== Kinship’s weak link is the proliferation of technical terms ====
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   * Furthermore, all of the acts that create kinship are also mutual. They take place in a sphere of exchange of care. Acts of kinship are also services for others: feeding, nursing, adopting, granting permission to garden, or even just explicit recognition of someone as a member.   * Furthermore, all of the acts that create kinship are also mutual. They take place in a sphere of exchange of care. Acts of kinship are also services for others: feeding, nursing, adopting, granting permission to garden, or even just explicit recognition of someone as a member.
     * Kinship is not just an act, it is an act of “nourishment,” or perhaps nurture in a fuller sense (Carsten 1995, 225, 234).     * Kinship is not just an act, it is an act of “nourishment,” or perhaps nurture in a fuller sense (Carsten 1995, 225, 234).
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 +==== Late edition brain candy: Are your memories an out-of-body experience? ====
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 +When we remember, we can see ourselves as others see us. Do we see what they also ascribe to us? Or, do we see only what we think we are? 
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 +Stern, Jacob. 2022. “You’ve Probably Seen Yourself in Your Memories.” //The Atlantic//, August 29, 2022. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/08/memories-third-person-perspective-psychology/671281/.
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