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ANTH 302/3015 - Global Families: Kinship and Relatedness in Late Modernity (3 cr.)



Prerequisites
Three hours of Social Sciences.

Description
Transformation of family and kin structures and relations in present-day globalization. Impacts of urbanization, international migration, consumerism, economic and other factors on families and kin groups.  Why and how people legitimize their kin relationships in the eyes of their community, their state, and their religion, and how different family structures are tied to naturalizing certain forms of power.  Comparative perspectives from the Middle East and other world areas.

When Offered
Offered in alternate years.


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