Kinship networks

What defines a “group” and how are these groups created? You might want to think through Ho’s idea of “kinship networks” and/or Treuer’s notion of “culture.”

David Treuer, “Digital Indians: 1990-2018,” from The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (2019) Karen Ho, “Biographies of Hegemony,” from Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (2009) Prompt: In previous essays, we examined whether individuals could create societal change, and to what extent individuals were responsible for making these changes. […]

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