February 9, 2024
Why The Study Of Kinship Still Needs Anthropologists
Why The Study Of Kinship Still Needs Anthropologists
Sabina Cveček, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, has just published an article in Anthropology Today entitled “Why kinship still needs anthropologists in the 21st century.”
The study scrutinizes the use of anthropological terms such as matriliny and patriliny in ancient DNA studies, arguing that these terms oversimplify political and kinship practices in societies with or without the state. Emphasizing cross-cultural diversity, the article challenges a few assumptions in archaeogenetics, advocating for nuanced empirical exploration. It calls for more engagement in debates on kinship and sociopolitical organization in the deep past from sociocultural anthropological perspectives, which is also an objective of the X-KIN (Exploring Prehistoric Kinship) project.
February 9. 2024
