BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T192504Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20191022T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20191022T143000 SUMMARY:Kinship Unbound: Performativism\, Bioessentialism\, and The Ethnographic Record UID:20260609T173849Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Videoconference room\, Level 4\, 250 Victoria Parade\, Melbourne\, Australia DESCRIPTION:

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This is a talk in the philosophy of social science that offers a critique of performativist or constructivist view of kinship\, views that are widely accepted in contemporary anthropology. \; After briefly characterizing the shift from bioessentialism to performativism in kinship studies (section 2)\, I consider a key ethnographic argument for performativism\, one offered recently by Dwight Read and Marshall Sahlins but with much wider resonance amongst cultural anthropologists (section 3). \; The remainder of the paper critiques each premise in this argument\, initially by identifying problems with the claim that culture is conceptually prior to biology vis-à\;-vis kinship (section 4) and then by rejecting the claim that cultural ignorance about biology favors performativism (section 5). \; Finally\, I challenge the pluralistic strand to performativism by drawing on the recent revival of extensionism about kinship terminologies (section 6). \;

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