ANTH212-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Kinship and Family in Comparative Perspective

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

This course is designed to help students understand the importance of kinship and family in human societies and appreciate the complexities and variation in how kinship and family are conceptualized and practised in different cultures. In this course, we will discuss classic and contemporary case studies of kinship and family in cultures and societies around the world, including Africa, China, Europe, the United States, and the Pacific area (including New Zealand), to list just a few. In examining these cases and case studies, we will probe the issues of biology and culture, personhood and subjectivity, and structure and human agency in varied ways of conceptualizing and practising kinship in different cultures. This course also covers comprehensive knowledge of historical and contemporary theories and methods in kinship and family studies to help students develop critical perspectives on how kinship and family are practised in contemporary life.

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH or SOCI or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Restrictions

Course Coordinator

Zhifang Song

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Weekly summaries 10% Every student is supposed to write a short summary of the main points of the weekly reading. The summary should be no more than 100 words.
Quiz and Tutortial Participation 10%
Workshop participation 5%
Mid-Semester Test 20%
Ethnographic Project Part 1:Data Collection 15%
Ethnographic Project Part 2: Final Essay 40% 1500 words

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $894.00

International fee $4,100.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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