Social Relations, part 1, From Communist Manifesto to Kinship Charts (Cultural Anthropology 2021)

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This lecture accompanies chapter five in Introducing Anthropology for Cultural Anthropology 2021. For comprehensive treatments of these concepts, see Anthropology of Kinship and Marriage Anthropology on Living Anthropologically.
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*What This Lecture Covers:*
🔴 Marx in the classroom—why UK textbooks aren't afraid to start with the bourgeoisie and proletariat
📜 Communist Manifesto as revolutionary pamphlet vs. Eighteenth Brumaire as real social analysis
🏛️ Lewis Henry Morgan—Syracuse-area founder of kinship studies who influenced Engels
📊 Kinship charts and why yours might need landscape vs. portrait mode
🔬 "Kinshipology"—when anthropology got obsessed with cross-cousins and matrilateral terminology
😂 Radcliffe-Brown's joking relationships—sex jokes that diffuse mother-in-law tension
⚔️ Colonial context—how the Nuer fighting the British heightened kinship's apparent importance
💧 "Blood is thicker than water"—the misquote that inverted the original meaning
💍 Love vs. arranged marriage—why the Maasai thought love was too fickle for business
🏠 Endogamy paradox—how zip codes and college engineer class-based marriage

*Why This Matters*
Social relations aren't reducible to any single principle—not class, not gender, not kinship alone. This lecture challenges simplistic frameworks while revealing how colonial encounters and revolutionary politics shaped what anthropologists thought they were discovering about human social organization.

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