201 Course Materials
- Amazing Grade Calculator Calculate your Grade
Projects, Assignments, and Extra Credits
- Project #1: Charting Kinship
- Oral Presentation Instructions
Student Power Points:
9am 10am Questions
1 1 1-8
2 2 9-14
3 3 15-20
4 4 21-26
5 5 27-32
6 6 33-36
7 7 37-41
8 8 42-45
- Extra Credit 1: Stone Chapter 5 and Menjivar due Friday, March 20th
- Extra Credit 2: President Barack Obama's Kin due Wednesday, March 25th
- Barack Obama's Mother's Doctoral Dissertaion: Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and thriving against all odds by Dunham, Stanley Ann, Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, 1992, 1067 pages; AAT 9300319
- Project #2: Life History
- Extra Credit 3: due Beginning of Class on Monday, April 20
Tests
- There Are No Short Answer Questions for First Exam
- Potential Short Answer Questions for Second Exam
- Potential Short Answer Questions for the Third Exam
Links to Topics Discussed in the Course
Gender, Reproduction, and Kinship
- Descent and Residence Notes to Accompany Linda Stone's Chapter 1
- Kinship Chart #1 (You may need to adjust the View to Reading or Print Layout.)
- Kinship Chart #2 (You may need to adjust the View to Reading or Print Layout.)
- Kinship Tutorial, See List of Figures especially
- Patrilineal, Matrilineal, Double, and Ambilineal Descent
- A Bilateral Kindred
- Patrilocal, Matrilocal, Ambilocal, Avunculocal, Natalocal, and Neolocal Residence
- Free Genealogy Software
- Kinship and Figuring Relationships like Second Cousin Twice Removed: General Resources
- Kinship Glossary
- Kinship Relationship
The Evolution of Kinship and Gender
- Primate Info Net This looks like an excellent site
- Primatology Links
- Cayo Santiago Today
- Human Evolution Guide
The Incest Taboo
- Leavitt's Disappearance of the Incest Taboo
- Kinship and the Inbreeding Coefficient
- People Against Rape (PAR)
- South Carolina Offenses Against Morality and Decency
Patrilineal Descent
The Yanomamo
Research Ethics
- AAA Code of Ethics
- Common Ethical Dilemmas Faced By Anthropologists
- The Darkness in El Dorado Controversy
- Franz Boas
Matrilineal Descent
- Audrey Richards
- The Navajo/Dine
- Traditional Navajo Hogan
- Modern Navajo Hogan
- Navajo Arts
- Dine(h) Literature and Mythology
- Official Website of Navajo Nation (Political, Judicial, Legislative Information)
- Articles on Nayar Marriage
- Map of Marshall Islands
Double and Cognatic Descent
- Alma Gottlieb's Work on the Beng
- The Kwaio
- Languages of the Solomon Islands
- Robert Glasse
- Photos of Abelam (New Guinea) Yams 1 2 3
- According to Richard Scaglion "Yam Cycles and Timeless Time in Melanesia." Ethnology 38:211-225, 1999. Footnote 5 on p. 223, "Abelam keep measures of the lengths of ceremonial yams not yet matched by exchange partners. In 1988 I measured the markers of the ceremonial group with which I reside, a sample of nine fairly good specimens grown over the past few years. The average length was just under 8 feet(mean=2.43 m.; S.D.=0.29 m.), with the largest specimen being 9' 5" (2.87 m.) long and over 30" (0.77 m.) in circumference."
Comparative Study of Marriage and Divorce
History of Euro-American Kinship and Gender
- AAA Statement on Marriage and the Family
- Linda Stone Chapter 7 Handout
- Brad R. Huber. “Ratio-Level Codes for Cross-Cultural Research on Marriage Transactions” Presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR), February 18-21, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Kinship, Gender, and the New Reproductive Technologies
- Amniocentesis Video Clip
- Chorionic Villus Sampling Video Clip
- Duke University's Fertility Service
- Egg Donation within the Jewish Community Video Clip
- Intrauterine Insemination Video Clip
- In vitro Fertilization Video Clip
- Human Karyotype Slide
- Recent Articles on the Anthropology of New Reproductiive Technologies
Evolutionary Perspectives
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