University of Texas

• ANT 302

• ● Consanguineal: Individuals related by blood. The kin you are related to by descent
  ● Affinal: Relatives by marriage, whether of lineals (ex: son’s wife) or of collaterals (sister’s
  husband)
  ● Fictive Kinship: This type of kinship would be the god parent, or the person who is really
  close to you that you may even call “aunt” or “uncle”, but are NOT biologically related to you
  or related to you through marriage. Family member by choice rather than blood or marriage.
  (ex: adoption)
  ● Historical Materialism: A methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and
  history that looks for the causes of development and changes in human society in the means
  by which humans produce the necessities of life. A theory of History which, along with other
  theories about societal, economic, and political structures, constitute Marxism.
  ● Marxism: For our purposes, a set of theories of society, economics, and politics. Its main
  goals are to critique capitalism and foment social change. Historical materialism is just one
  part of Marxist theory.
  ● Political Economy: Application of the theories and methods of Historical Materialism to the
  traditional concerns or subjects of Anthropology. Political Economists may emphasize how
  ideas and belief systems work towards power’s goals, how control over the means of
  production is a major influence on legand political systems, or how laws don’t benefit
  everyone equally.
  ● Ideology: Set of ideas that reflect class interest. Upper class typically subordinates the lower
  class into working hard for menial wages, this is due to the fact that the upper class owns the
  means of production and it is normalized. The lower class must find their own ideology.
  ● Class: Based on real property difference/symbolic proportional stratification. This can be
  measured by income, machines, home, land, business, capital, investments, symbolic forms
  of capital (cultural capital). It also includes their ability to support a family, it divides people
  into sets based on perceived social or economic status. Shows the relationship between
  people and modes of production.
  ● Materialism: Theory based on ethnography, objective conditions, assume that human needs
  (food/shelter) take priority over other