GROUP 4

INTRODUCTION OF
ANTHROPOLOGICAL
CONCEPTS FOR E-ethnology
Study
BASIS FOR OUR CHOSEN STUDY
 CONTENTS

01 02 03
INTRODUCTION CONCEPTS IMPLICATIONS

Introducing the proposed Integrating anthroplogical Upholding the purpose,

title and its brief context for concepts of Kinship in the relevance, and key take-aways
our e-ethnology study. proposed study. from the topic being presented.
01 INTRODUCTION
TITLE, SETTING, AND CONTEXTS
ECONOMICS OF KINSHIP:
AFFINITY IN A SAN JUAN
FISHING COMMUNITY

PROPOSED TITLE
FISHING COMMUNITY (GROUP BEING STUDIED)

 A fishing community in San Juan, a home to some 708 people.

 These people are centers of hardship due to troubled fishing

grounds.

 Nelson Turgo, an ethnographer largely use kinship in relation to

gender, economic relations, and power relations in the context of
local economic improvement.

 Turgo described this fishing community as the Kinship of

Everyday Needs.
SETTING
●San Juan, Southern
Luzon
●On the coastline facing
Lamon Bay, Quezon,
Philippines
●A Rural Community
( Turgo, 2016)
LAMON BAY,
QUEZON
PROVINCE
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BRIEF
CONTEXT
●BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL
KINSHIP TIES “ KABIT-KABIT”
●The community has varying degrees
●Dense Kinship Networks
●Description of daily transactions and
socialization with the people in the
community
●Incomings and Outgoings
02 CONCEPTS
Concerning Kinship as Anthropoligical
concept
THEIR KINSHIP IS BASED ON WHAT?

FAMILY and MARRIAGE

Close family Ties

Social roles which are

generally those of
spouses, parents, children,
siblings
It also focuses of defined
bonds that exist in close-
related group ties.
Realm of family kinship
Determined by
Couples towards
creating links to
other couples in
the fishing
community for
economic activity.
VARIATION IN FAMILY
FORM
• Patrifocal
• Matrfifocal
• Extended-family household
STRUCTURES OF
KINSHIP
The chosen fishing community are
mostly in accord with bilateral
kinship.
KINSHIP AS A
STRATEGIC
APPROACH TO
SURVIVAL
 People deliberately deploy kinship as a strategic approach by limiting
their everyday interactions with kin, selecting to be intimate only with
a select few. The underlying principle behind this practice is clear:
choosing a select few with whom they have a mutual relationship when
sharing goods and services. They can manage their resources well and
survive tough economic times. This strategic way of using kinship ties is
called ‘forgetting kin.’ Such practice of forgetting kin tends to exclude
STRUCTURES OF
relatives who are viewed as not useful in terms of survival and do not
haveKINSHIP
a close relationship with their biological ties. In this instance,
The ties
kinship chosen fishing community
are negotiated areon a day-to-day basis as
and processed
peoplemostly in accord
find ways to securewith bilateral
resources for themselves and their families.
kinship.
 TWO LEVELS OF KINSHIP TIES
STRUCTURES OF
1. KINSHIP THROUGH BIOLOGICAL TIES
KINSHIP
The chosen 2.fishing community
KINSHIP are NEEDS
OF EVERYDAY
mostly in accord with bilateral
kinship.
CONCEPT OF FORGETTING
THE KIN
“ If I have not asked you anything,
why would I give in to your request?
FORGETTING THE KIN
CONCEPT
• Kinship ties based on everyday needs
• It does not matter whether one is blood,
affinal, or ritual kin.
03
IMPLICATIONS
RELEVANCE AND
PURPOSE
 SOCIAL
COHESION

STRUCTURES OF
Meeting in choosing leader to compel the local
KINSHIP about the banning of commercial fishing
government
The chosen fishing community
boats. are
mostly in accord with bilateral
kinship.
 SOCIAL
COHESION
IMPLICATION:‘forgetting’ kin in
terms of prioritizing people in relation to the
STRUCTURES sharingOF of goods and services, they were also
KINSHIP very quick to criticize and castigate their own
kin community
The chosen fishing whom they thoughtare had not done enough
to help them. The cohesion now between the
mostly in accord two
with bilateral
parties who are blood related experienced
kinship. havoc because of this kinship issues.  
 PROSPECTS OF
POLITICAL ACTIVISM

ErlindaOF
STRUCTURES was allotted three slots by the
KINSHIP municipal coordinator concerning
The chosen fishing community are
loan programme.
mostly in accord with bilateral
kinship.
 PROSPECTS OF
POLITICAL ACTIVISM
IMPLICATION: Blood connection is
STRUCTURES notOFa foundation for political
KINSHIP advantage since some individuals
The chosen fishing community are
prioritize their core group or social
mostly in accord with bilateral
kinship. relationship and intimacy above
natural kinship.
 RELEVANCE
This study will contribute to the further
ethnographic substantiation of the processual
nature of kinship, By practicing kinship ties in
a restrictive sense, wherein acts of giving and
sharing are limited to a few, It complicate the
discussion of moral obligations to kin which
include not just the ethico-moral
considerations inherent in kinship ties, but also
issues surrounding the economy of survival.
 PEOPLE IN THE
COMMUNITY

elect a core group with whom they

share and ex- change their resources
on a regular basis, they also wilfully
undermine the expectations that
commitment to blood kinship ties
comes first over all others.
FISHING COMMUNITY
Fishing in the community has been in
decline and many fishermen have
subsequently left fishing and opted to
work as fishmongers for fish traders
who obtained their fish from a port in
a nearby city. Thus, through study
helps government enrich policies for
fishermen and their families.
FORGETTING AND CULTURE
KINSHIP

Has become a trope that

people in the community
constantly use to refer to
the refusal of their blood
kin to extend help.
 IN
CONCLUSION.
 THANK
YOU !
Guno, Ibanez, Luza, Jacala, Madon, Lopez, Hilario,
Gervacio IN
CONCLUSION.