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Kinship has been a core interest of anthropology from the discipline’s inception, since it is one aspect of life that is common to absolutely every human on the planet – everyone has relatives, by blood or marriage or voluntary adoption. But the ways in which humans think about their relatives and deploy their kin relations varies dramatically, and that is where the anthropological fun begins. This module will introduce students to the cultural variation in kinship systems and family types and marriage practices around the world.
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