Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthropology/Collaboration of the month

This is a page to discuss the choosing and improving of the WikiProject Anthropology Collaboration of the Month.

'Core Anthropology' Collaborations: Nominations

See talk page nominating the following TWO core anthropology concept articles for a mid-January to mid-February monthly project collaboration.

• Ethnography - which, it seems, "..says very little about what it actually is - seems to primarily define ethnography as a genre rather than a method, when in fact it is both..."

• Kinship and Kinship and descent which, it seemss, "..could be two articles, one for kinship and one for descent, but the current set up needs to be resolved. Expansion needed anyway. More ethnographic examples and some kinship diagrams would be useful..."

• Support- I would be particularly keen to see this topic improved, and would hope to help with the work. Essentially, the current situation is that there are three articles (at least) which are all attempting to cover the same ground: Kinship, Kinship terminology, and Kinship and descent. The end result after a collabortion would hopefully be two articles, one for Kinship and one for Descent, and much improved coverage of the whole area. Robotforaday (talk) 15:18, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Please let all interested collaborators/contributors discuss, possibly agree(?), and/or vote here .. the outcomes of which can then be placed on the WikiProject Anthropology page, and the selected articles appropriately tagged?! Bruceanthro (talk) 14:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Redraft completed on the kinship articles

Somewhere in the notes to the Kinship page, which was difficult to rewrite, I found a comment that the German site had a useful discussion and asked if someone wanted to do a translation. I did so, and found some useful logical structure put through the first few points of the essay in which I replaced the current text. Having gotten that far, I incorporated all the elements in the previous text, and simply went on to write the thumbnail history of this contentious field. As they say, its a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it. Douglas R. White (talk) 06:39, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Once finished I folded the "Kinship and Descent" pages into the "Kinship" page which otherwise made no sense. Even the dictionary agrees that kinship includes descent and marriage, while the former "Kinship and Descent" draft took the American POV objected to by David M. Schneider 1984 and countless others that kinship is "only" about blood kin.

• Strong support for redraft, refold, and the reasoning for all of the above, as expressed above. See also the associated, implicit nomination here. of descent to be the NEXT collaboration of the month .. upon the completion of current "omnibus" kinship article?!! Bruceanthro (talk) 00:25, 9 February 2008 (UTC)