Kinship: Living in Relation

. Gateway sociocultural anthropology course introducing basic concepts in anthropology of gender, sexuality, reproduction, and power, and feminist and queer anthropology. Explores what it means to be related to another person, what “family” is, and what that means or meant to people in different times and places. Kinship as a foundational yet diverse aspect of social life; “the family” as a site for expression of power and reparative world-making. Kinship in relation to culture, gender, law, science, politics, and activism. Topics include marriage diversity, kinship dissolutions, property, reproductive technologies, adoption, relational ecologies, activism, and ruptured and repaired kinship amid historical trauma.