http://savageminds.org Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:54:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://savageminds.org/2008/10/13/the-bilateral-kindred-in-contemporary-suburban-america/ http://savageminds.org/2008/10/13/the-bilateral-kindred-in-contemporary-suburban-america/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:12:38 +0000 Rex http://savageminds.org/?p=1354 I just finished teaching descent and alliance in my intro class using My Usual Tricks and thought I’d share the standard bilateral kindred that I use to elicit Eskimo-style kinship terms from my students. This year was particularly great because I started with male ego ‘Bart’ and asked ‘what is the name of the woman who bore him?’ when someone in the class wondered aloud if there was a reason a woman couldn’t be ego in our diagram — so our exercise in constructing the only bilateral kindred that everyone in my class knows started with Lisa instead. Here’s the finished diagram, which includes semi-canonical relatives as well.

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