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Kinship and Imagined Communities

Kinship and Imagined Communities

Author(s): Renee M Bonzani

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2019

Pages: 108

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2019

Pages: 108

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Kinship & Imagined Communities is written as an introduction for the general public and undergraduate students to some of the basic concepts found in the field of Anthropology. Anthropology very basically has been defined as the study of human cultures. Kinship & Imagined Communities covers the keystone or foundational concepts found in all human societies, that of kinship. A brief review on the origins of the field of Anthropology is given followed by four chapters listed under Part I: Why does Kinship Seem to Be More Important to Some Societies and Who Cares Who You marry Anyway? Part II of the text is entitled Which Flag Should I Fly on the Fourth of July? In this section the chapters deal more so with political relations and institutions and how one finds oneself in multiple of these identities at the same time. Often referred to an “imagined communities”, this concept is explored in this section. The general goal of the book is to give the reader a basic foundational knowledge of these anthropological concepts and examples of how they work in the real world and how they have changed and are changing with industrialization and globalization.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Anthropology

PART I: Why Does Kinship Seem to Be More Important to Some Societies and Who Cares Who You Marry Anyway?
Chapter 2: ­ The Origins and Diversification of Sociopolitical Systems: At the Family Level: Kinship Practices and Marriage as Exchange
Chapter 3: Factors Fueling the Industrial Revolution and Technology, Population Growth, and Economics
Chapter 4: Industrial Societies: Changing Ideologies, Politics, Marriage and Kinship Practices, and Reproduction Issues
Chapter 5: Case Study on Marriage and Descent Practices: ­the League of the Iroquois

PART II: Which Flag Should I Fly on the Fourth of July?
Chapter 6: ­ The Individual, Social Identification, and Territoriality
Chapter 7: ­ The Origins and Diversification of Sociopolitical Systems: Bands, Tribes and Chiefdoms, and States
Chapter 8: Political and Social Identification: Indigenous Groups, Ethnicity, ­ the State, and Nationalism
Chapter 9: Globalization: Different Ways of ­thinking about Economic Exchanges

EPILOGUE: Where Are We Going? The Anthropocene and Genetic, Cultural/Material, Social/Political, and Ecological/Environmental Inheritances

Bibliography
Index

Renee M Bonzani

Renée M. Bonzani holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and currently serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She has taught at the University of Kentucky since approximately 2002 as a Part-time Instructor, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Paleoethnobotany, and now as a Lecturer. She has co-authored (with Dr. Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo) the book San Jacinto 1: A Historical Ecological Approach to an Archaic Site in Colombia (2005), University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, which has also been published in Spanish (2014) by the Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. She has also co-authored (with Michael B. Steenken) the book Manuel of Ethnobotany and Paleoethnobotany: Case Study from San Jacinto, Colombia (2020), Rylan Books, Ronkonkoma, NY. Dr. Bonzani has done paleoethnobotanical analyses on numerous archaeological sites in the midwestern United States as well as for sites in the southeastern United States and in South America including in Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, and Venezuela. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and has published with the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Dr. Bonzani has also been a member of the Society for American Archaeology, American Anthropological Association, Society for Ethnobiology, and the Kentucky Academy of Sciences.

New Publication Now Available!

Kinship & Imagined Communities is written as an introduction for the general public and undergraduate students to some of the basic concepts found in the field of Anthropology. Anthropology very basically has been defined as the study of human cultures. Kinship & Imagined Communities covers the keystone or foundational concepts found in all human societies, that of kinship. A brief review on the origins of the field of Anthropology is given followed by four chapters listed under Part I: Why does Kinship Seem to Be More Important to Some Societies and Who Cares Who You marry Anyway? Part II of the text is entitled Which Flag Should I Fly on the Fourth of July? In this section the chapters deal more so with political relations and institutions and how one finds oneself in multiple of these identities at the same time. Often referred to an “imagined communities”, this concept is explored in this section. The general goal of the book is to give the reader a basic foundational knowledge of these anthropological concepts and examples of how they work in the real world and how they have changed and are changing with industrialization and globalization.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Anthropology

PART I: Why Does Kinship Seem to Be More Important to Some Societies and Who Cares Who You Marry Anyway?
Chapter 2: ­ The Origins and Diversification of Sociopolitical Systems: At the Family Level: Kinship Practices and Marriage as Exchange
Chapter 3: Factors Fueling the Industrial Revolution and Technology, Population Growth, and Economics
Chapter 4: Industrial Societies: Changing Ideologies, Politics, Marriage and Kinship Practices, and Reproduction Issues
Chapter 5: Case Study on Marriage and Descent Practices: ­the League of the Iroquois

PART II: Which Flag Should I Fly on the Fourth of July?
Chapter 6: ­ The Individual, Social Identification, and Territoriality
Chapter 7: ­ The Origins and Diversification of Sociopolitical Systems: Bands, Tribes and Chiefdoms, and States
Chapter 8: Political and Social Identification: Indigenous Groups, Ethnicity, ­ the State, and Nationalism
Chapter 9: Globalization: Different Ways of ­thinking about Economic Exchanges

EPILOGUE: Where Are We Going? The Anthropocene and Genetic, Cultural/Material, Social/Political, and Ecological/Environmental Inheritances

Bibliography
Index

Renee M Bonzani
Renee M Bonzani

Renée M. Bonzani holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and currently serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She has taught at the University of Kentucky since approximately 2002 as a Part-time Instructor, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Paleoethnobotany, and now as a Lecturer. She has co-authored (with Dr. Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo) the book San Jacinto 1: A Historical Ecological Approach to an Archaic Site in Colombia (2005), University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, which has also been published in Spanish (2014) by the Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. She has also co-authored (with Michael B. Steenken) the book Manuel of Ethnobotany and Paleoethnobotany: Case Study from San Jacinto, Colombia (2020), Rylan Books, Ronkonkoma, NY. Dr. Bonzani has done paleoethnobotanical analyses on numerous archaeological sites in the midwestern United States as well as for sites in the southeastern United States and in South America including in Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, and Venezuela. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and has published with the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Dr. Bonzani has also been a member of the Society for American Archaeology, American Anthropological Association, Society for Ethnobiology, and the Kentucky Academy of Sciences.