M5 Discussion ANTH Replies

Please reply to each classmate's post. Use course reading as your source: Linda Stone and Diane King. Kinship and Gender: An Introduction. 6th Edition (2019). 1. Ashley Terracino posted: This page automatically marks posts as read as you scroll.Adjust automatic marking as read setting I decided to read the ethnography entitled Enduring polygamy: Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis. The author's main focus of research is focused on the family dynamics and structure, kinship and how relationship survive throughout a plural marriage. She focuses on the hardships that are faced throughout the region from plural marriages. In comparison to living in the United States where polygamy is illegal almost everywhere reading this ethnography and learning just how common it is but also learning about the different struggles these families are facing. Money being short, providing for multiple households, trying to oblige and keep everyone involved happy while still being able to provide for the family the created. Here in the U.S., we hear about large families and the struggles the face being able to care for all their children and I correlate this as being the same thing they are going thru in Mali. Instead of it being just a 2-adult family with some kids it is just adding more adult to the mix and still having a high number of children. I plan to focus my written assignment on the gender roles and cultural influence they are facing. The struggle of trying to break free from cultural traditions and how the plural marriage affects everyone involved. Culture plays a big part in this area of the world when it comes to traditions and certain ways of life being acceptable or not acceptable. The introduction speaks on a couple who she knew and was close with and how they had broken from the traditions and married for love rather than an arranged marriage and still, yet the husband decided to follow in the traditions of his ancestors and take another wife. It appears that the ideas and practices of their culture weigh heavily on the minds of the newer generation. 2. Kenyetta Williams posted: This page automatically marks posts as read as you scroll.Adjust automatic marking as read setting The enthrongraphy I chose to write about is Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil Black Women's perspective on love, respect, and kinship. I choose this enthrongrahpy because I am an African-American married women, who has certain views on what is to be expected in a marriage/relationship. To what I understand, women take care of the children and the household, and the man fills in everything in between. That is not exactly the view I see. I feel as if everything should be split down the middle. I feel as if a partnership requires for everyone to be able to be present, and allotted the time for them to grow as individuals. To be honest, that is an area I have trouble with. I feel like women have just as much responsibility as men do in todays society. I loved how the Borgodo' women in Brazil refuse to allow themselves to succumb to anything less than what they feel that they deserves, shifts in sociocultural norms and values surrounding gender roles and identity, marriage, and divorce granted women in Brogodó the ability to put an end to marital conflict and dissolve their marriage."(Mederious,2018) Most importantly I admire that these women know that with in a marriage there will be strife and that a marriage is hard work. They are not not walking blind and have full trust in romance and equality. I would like to be able to talk about the difference in expectation (roles) that have changed over time. Reference Mederios, M. M. (2018). 1. In Marriage, Divorce, Distress in North East Brazil: Black Women’s Perspective on Love, Respect, and Kinship (pp. 1–23). essay.