Learning outcomes: Along the lines of this course, we attempt to acquaint students with the most
fundamental anthropological theories of kinship and to grasp some of its basic notions. More specifically, we examine the theory of descent theory and alliance theory, both of which construe kinship as an holistic manner of social construction, and we also look into the concepts of descent, alliance, incest, exogamy, dowry, family settlement and family household. We also probe into the theory of practice, the symbolic approach, and those feminist perspectives which propose the complementary study of kinship and social gender, that is those theoretical approaches which have questioned older anthropological theories over kinship, while, at the same time, paving the way for the emergence of recent disseminations of kinship as a matter of choice rather than a natural factor. Special attention will be given to new reproduction technologies and new forms of family relations and
cohabitation that have challenged the notion of “biological kinship relations”, and changed our views about “what makes one a relative”.
By the end of the course students should be capable to:

• Have an adequate knowledge of one of the most important anthropological fields in terms of theoretical analysis and ethnographic description
• Understand the various ways in which kinship and family relations are perceived and conceptualized in different societies and cultures
• Recognize the interrelation among kinship relations and wider social relations in different cultural contexts
• Analyze recent kinship relations as an effect of technological changes and social transformations

General Competences: 
Working independently
Production of new research ideas
Respect for difference and multiculturalism
Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to
gender issues
Criticism and self-criticism
Production of free, creative and inductive thinking

Suggested bibliography:
IN GREEK

1. Καλπουρτζή, Εύα. 2001. Συγγενικές Σχέσεις και Στρατηγικές Ανταλλαγών. Το Παράδειγμα της Νάξου το 17ο αι. Ελληνικά Γράμματα: Αθήνα
2. Καντσά, Βενετία (επιμ.) 2013 Η μητρότητα στο προσκήνιο. Σύγχρονες έρευνες στην ελληνική εθνογραφία. Εκδ. Αλεξάνδρεια: Αθήνα
3. Καυταντζόγλου, Ρωξάνη (επιμ.) 1996. Οικογένειες του Παρελθόντος. Μορφές Οικιακής Οργάνωσης στην Ευρώπη και τα Βαλκάνια.. Αλεξάνδρεια: Αθήνα
4. Kuper, Adam. 2006 [α’ έκδοση 1988, β’ έκδοση 2005]. Η επανεπινόηση της πρωτόγονης κοινωνίας. Μεταμορφώσεις ενός μύθου. Εκδ. Αλεξάνδρεια: Αθήνα.
5. Sahlins, Marshall(2014) Τι είναι (και τι δεν είναι) η συγγένεια, Αθήνα, Εκδόσεις του Εικοστού
6. Strathern, Marilyn. 2008 [1992].Αναπαράγοντας το μέλλον. Ανθρωπολογία, συγγένεια και νέες τεχνολογίες αναπαραγωγής. Αθήνα: Εκδ. Ελληνικά Γράμματα
7. Τουντασάκη, Ειρήνη 2008 Ανθρωπολογικές θεωρήσεις της συγγένειας κατά τον 20ο αι. Αθήνα: Εκδ. Ελληνικά Γράμματα
8. Vernier, Bernard. 2001. Η Κοινωνική Γένεση των Αισθημάτων. Πρωτότοκοι και Υστερότοκοι στην Κάρπαθο. Eκδ. Αλεξάνδρεια: Αθήνα

IN ENGLISH

1. Carsten, Janet (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness. New Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
2. Collier, Jane Fishburne and Sylvia Junko Yanagisako (eds.).1987. Gender and Kinship. Essays Toward a Unifiied Analysis.Stanford University Press: Stanford, California.
3. Edwards, Janet, Sarah Franklin, Eric Hirsch, Frances Price, Marilyn Strathern (eds). 1993 (2nd edition). Technologies of Procreation. Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception. Routledge: London and New York.
4. Evans-Prichard, E.E. 1951 (επανέκδοση 2002). Kinship and Marriage among the Nuer. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
5. Fortes, Meyer. The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi: The second part of an analysis of the social structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe. Oxford University Press: London
6. Fox, Robin. 1967. Kinship and Marriage. An Anthropological Perspective. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
7. Frankin, Susan & Susan McKinnon (eds.) 2001. Relative Values. Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Duke University Press: Durham & London.
8. Ginsberg, Faye and Rayna Rapp (eds.) Conceiving the New World Order. University of California Press: Berkeley
9. Goody, Jack (ed.) 1973. The Character of Kinship. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
10. Goody, Jack (ed.). 1971. Kinship. Penguin Books Ltd: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England.
11. Héritier, Françoise. 2005. Οι δύο αδελφές και η μητέρα τους. Ανθρωπολογία της Αιμομιξίας, Αθήνα, Εκδόσεις του Εικοστού Πρώτου (αρχική γαλλική έκδοση, 1994).
12. Holy, Ladislav. 1996. Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship. Pluto Press: London.
13. Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1949. Les Structures elementaires de la parente
14. Mac Cornack, C and Marilyn Strathern(eds.) 1980. Nature, Culture and Gender. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
15. Malinowski, Bronislav. 1927 (επανέκδοση 2001). Sex and Repression in Savage Society. Routledge: London and New York. Ή ελληνική μετάφραση: Malinowski, Bronislav. 1927 (μτφ. 1976). Σεξουαλικότητα και Καταπίεση στην Πρωτόγονη Κοινωνία. Εκδ. Καστανιώτης: Αθήνα
16. Needham, Rodney.1962. Structure and Sentiment
17. Parkin, Roger and Linda Stone. 2004. Kinship and Family. An Anthropological Reader. Blackwell Publishing
18. Radcliffe-Brown A.R., Forde C. D. (eds.) 1950. African Systems of Kinship and Marriage. Oxford University Press.
19. Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. 1950. Social Organization of African Systems of Kinship and Marriage
20. Schneider, David. 1968 (2nd 1980). American Kinship. A Cultural Account. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London
21. Stone, Linda. 1997. Kinship and Gender. An Introduction. Westview Press: Colorado and Oxford.
22. Stone, Linda. 2000. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship. Rowman & Littlefield.
23. Strathern, Marilyn. 1992. After Nature. English Kinship in the late Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
    

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JOURNALS:

IN GREEK

1. Εθνολογία http://www.societyforethnology.gr/el/ethnology-journal
2. Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Ερευνών https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/ekke
3. Κοινωνικές Επιστήμες [ΚΕ} http://alexandria-publ.gr/product-category/social-sciences/
4. Σύγχρονα Θέματα  http://www.synchronathemata.gr/

IN ENGLISH

1. American Anthropologist http://www.americananthropologist.org/
2. American Ethnologist http://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1425/
3. Annual Review of Anthropology http://www.annualreviews.org/journal/anthro
4. Anthropological Quaterly http://aq.gwu.edu/
5. Anthropology Today http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8322
6. Cultural Anthropology https://culanth.org/
7. Current Anthropology http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ca/current
8. Ethnology https://www.jstor.org/journal/ethnology 
9. HAU https://www.haujournal.org/
10. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute https://www.therai.org.uk/publications/journal-of-the-royal-anthropological-institute