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Kinship and Relatedness

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1. What is the meaning of sharing food for Basotho people? How does this relate to Block and McGrath’s larger insights into kinship in Lesotho during the AIDS epidemic? How is this similar or different from shared food in your family? (150 words) 2. Infected Kin opens each chapter with a story by creative non-fiction-writer Will McGrath, before transitioning into anthropologist Ellen Block’s more classic ethnographic analysis. Why do they do this? Reflect on the two types of writing, and describe what you gain from the two authors’ respective approaches to the topics being discussed. You might consider discussing what you see as the pros and cons (or the kinds of meaning that can be conveyed) of each author’s writing style. The best answers will refer to specific things from the book so far, to analyze what the two voices ultimately convey to us about anthropology. (400 words) 3. Choose four of the following concepts, and apply them to what we have read so far in Infected Kin. For each concept you choose, please underline or bold the term (so we can clearly identify which concepts you chose). Be sure to define each concept, and then explain how it applies to Infected Kin. The best answers will underscore the significance of the term for Block and McGrath’s book. (400 words) “Denaturalizing” a cultural practice Ethnographer as a positioned subject Cultural “logic” or rationale of a practice Ethnocentrism Code-switching Ethnographic dazzle Cultural relativism Cultural “reflexes” Emotional economy Kinship as an idiom Thick description Cultural “reflexes” “Grammar” of a culture The invention of “orphans” in Botswana.
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