Love, Marriage, and Family: New Kinship Studies

3 credits

An anthropological exploration of kinship as a symbolic ordering of human relationships and reproduction. Emphasis is on the naturalization of nuclear family and marriage forms such as monogamy, and on changes in relatedness through new technologies, socio-legal processes, and mobility. Credit will be granted for only one of ANTH_O 414 or GWST_O 414. [3-0-0] Prerequisite: ANTH_O 100. Third-year standing recommended. Equivalency: GWST_O 414.