Welcome. This is the discussion space attached to the Society and Culture Atlas, organized around kinship, institutions, social theory and the ethnographic record, honest about debates such as structure versus agency and the ethics of colonial era fieldwork rather than settling them. A few house rules: keep a disagreement about evidence rather than about people, and cite what you can.
The atlas itself is still being built. Every room below carries an opening note from the curator to start it off, and you are welcome to open your own thread on anything those rooms cover, or to use this room for whatever does not fit a narrower one.