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Web LinksGeneral information about the anthropological study of families, kinship, and descentKinship and Social Organization: An Interactive Tutorial, by Brian Schwimmer
http://www.umanitoba.ca/anthropology/kintitle.html
A fun way to learn or review kinship, from Dr. Brian Schwimmer, of the University of Manitoba Anthropology Department. Lots of good visuals. See also http://www.umanitoba.ca/anthropology/tutor/fundamentals/toc.htmlDennis O'Neil's Nature of Kinship: An Introduction to Descent Systems and Family Organization
http://anthro.palomar.edu/kinship/default.htm
Another excellent tutorial on principles of kinship and descent.The Linkages Projects
http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/linkages/linkages.html
A website from the University of California at Irvine. Quote: "One of the Linkages Projects is an effort to assemble a large database on human communities from around the world, including kinship data sets and genealogies, along with rich ethnographic data, as recorded by anthropologists, or in many cases, historians, demographers, sociologists, or political scientists. This database -- now expanded to over 150 ethnographic cases, along with programs for visualization and analysis of community networks, has led to new insights into the nature and organization of kinship, social networks, institutional change, and human social processes in general."Experiencing Rich Anthropology: Representing Kinship
http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/
A website from the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (CSAC) - University of Kent at Canterbury. Quote: "This unit introduces how we can use computers to address some of the issues that emerge from the complexity of kinship-related information and anthropological ideas about these. It covers two basic issues, a) how to specify ideas systematically, and b) how to implement these on a computer. The examples are mostly drawn reflexively from my kinship relationships, and the terminology is mainly a variant of English Kinship Terminology (EKT). The process of specification and implementation can be applied to other kinship terminologies and other areas of anthropology."Kinship and Marriage
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/kinship/index.shtml
The kinship section of the emuseum at Minnesota State University at Mankato.Intentional Communities
http://www.ic.org/
The main source for resources, information, and links to other sites concerning intentional communities, a mostly modern, Western phenomenon, where a group of people deliberately band together to form a community, even though they may not be genetically related.The Cultural Necessity of Queer Families
http://eserver.org/bs/12/sandell.html
An essay about how families are defined, and who gets to define them; from "Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life," by Jillian Sandell, from March 1994, but still relevant today. Kinship Tutorial from Aus Anthrop
http://www.ausanthrop.net/research/kinship/
A four-part tutorial about kinship. It includes "Part 1 What is kinship? A collection of quotes Part 2 Symbols used to represent kinship relations Part 3 Watch an interactive kinship symbols tutorial here (Flash plug-in needed) Part 4 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Social Organisation: transforming concepts." Kinship systems were (and still are) extremely complicated and sophisticated among Australian Aborigines.Foods of the World
http://www.mankato.msus.edu/emuseum/cultural/foods/
University of Minnesota at Mankato's Emuseum, section on world foodwaysExamples of contemporary "Soup Nights"Soup Night at Colorado State University
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~acf/soup/soup_night.htm
In Colorado, Wednesday is Soup Night. Quote: "Soup Night is a weekly event meant to foster community and build friendships among CSU students. Each week, soup is served in the International House kitchen along with other food such as some type of bread, crackers, and cookies. Soup Night is totally free -- no strings attached. Anyone is welcome to come.Soup Night at Georgia Tech
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~casey/soup.html
Thursdays are Soup Nights at Georgia Tech. Amusing quote from the history section of the website: "A brief history of soup night: "In the year 2000 there was a girl named Laoma, many know her as Layla. She coexisted with friends that some know as J and Jason, others know them as "what's up Jonathan" and jason. Layla was an eccentric person with many eccentric friends. At some point she got the eccentric idea that it would be fun to cook soup for friends on Thursday nights, so she did.""Soup Night at the Morgan's"
http://lpr.pca.org/events/2003/022203-SoupNight/article.htm
A description of a classic "Soup Night" gathering of the Loma Prieta Region's Porsche Club of America, with photos! |
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