The course aims to introduce the students to contemporary anthropological debates on kinship, family, intimacy and “relatendness”. Indeed, the course analyzes classic and contemporary theories of kinship. Additionally, it concentrates on culturally diverse ways of kinship/family organization and arrangement of the domestic sphere in different societies and cultures. Further emphasis is placed on the concepts of marriage, dowry, descent, motherhood, fatherhood as well as “old” and “new” forms of family-making. Simultaneously, the course associates relationships and practices of kinship and family with processes of learning and knowledge, socialization, becoming and belonging as well as with various domains of social life. In the context of the analysis of contemporary kinship transformations, attention is placed on the national and international legislative framework for the family.