Kinship Pt 5: Manipulating Kinship: Cults and Politics
Kinship is one of the first topics anthropologists studied over 150 years ago. While the term may seem quaint, issues of intimate relationships never get old.
“Part 1: Kinship Structures” outlines different ways of structuring family through marriage.
“Part 2: Brother, Sisters, and Beyond” explores siblinghood and culturally specific kin relationships.
“Part 3: Oedipus Ubiquitous?” questions whether there are universal psychological dynamics between parents and children.
“Part 4: Kinship and Contemporary Family-making,” offers an anthropological perspective on significant contemporary shifts in the way family is being created and defined.
“Part 5: Manipulating Kinship: Cults and Politics,” explores what happens when kinship structures and family ties are interrupted or controlled for political purposes.
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Resources:
The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft by Rebecca Stein and Phillip Stein
Magic Witchcraft and Religion: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion by Pamela Muro and James Myers
Films:
New Year Baby by Socheata Poeuv
Full Episode: Cults, Explained by Netflix
Why do you people join cults? By Janja Lalich