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Anthropology—Marriages and Families
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- 1Kin GroupAn organized, cooperative group based on kinship
- 2Nuclear FamilyA married couple together with their unmarried children
- 3Extended FamilyCulturally recognized relatives of varying degrees of distance
- 4HouseholdA domestic group, or people who live in the same place and share assets and responsibilities
- 5Incest TaboosWhen sex between relatives is forbidden. A cultural universal
- 6Exogamous RulesMarriage rules that forbid an individual to marry someone within their same social group
- 7Endogamous RulesMarriage rules that forbid an individual to marry someone outside their same social group
- 8MonogamyEach individual is allowed only to have one spouse at a time
- 9PolygynyOne man is allowed to have multiple wives
- 10PolyandryOne woman is allowed to have multiple husbands
- 11Group MarriageSeveral men and several women are married to each other simultaneously
- 12PolygamyMultiple spouses
- 13Marriage AlliancesRelationships created by intermarriage
- 14LevirateA custom where a widow marries a male relative (brother) of her deceased husband
- 15SororateA custom where a widower marries a female relative of his deceased wife
- 16BridewealthA custom where the groom's family gives goods to the bride's family to validate the marriage
- 17BrideserviceA custom where the groom has to spend a period of time working for the bride's family
- 18Postmarital Residence PatternHousehold in which the majority of newlywed couples will live
- 19Patrilocal ResidenceCouples live with the husband's parents
- 20Matrilocal ResidenceCouples live with the wife's parents
- 21Ambilocal ResidenceThe couple decides whether they will live with the wife's parents or husband's parents
- 22Bilocal ResidenceWhen the couple spends time and moves between the wife's parents and the husband's parents
- 23Neolocal ResidenceWhen the couples live in their own residence and not with the wife's parents or the husband's parents
- 24Avuncolocal ResidenceCouples live with the husband's uncle
- 25Matrifocal FamilyFamily consisting of a mother and her children, sometimes with a male loosely involved in the family life
- 26Unilineal Descent GroupTracing back familial heritage through one sex of the family, either males or females, but not both
- 27Unilineal Extended FamiliesThe group of nuclear families traced back from one sex of the family, either males or females, but not both
- 28LineageUnilineal descent groups that are larger than an extended family and whose members can trace how they are related
- 29ClanNamed unilineal descent groups. May not know their lineage, but still believe the members are kinfolk
- 30Nonunilineal DescentThe people do not associate with the matrilineal or patrilineal side, but make decisions themselves on where to live and how to live
- 31Bilateral KinshipPeople trace their kinship equally through both sets of parents
- 32KindredAll bilateral relatives recognized by an individual
- 33Cognatic DescentDescent that is traced through males and females
- 34Kin TermsLabels that individuals use to refer to their relatives
- 35Kin TerminologyThe system that people use to classify their relatives
- 36Cultural Construction of KinshipThe idea that kinship relationships do not always mean that the relations are biological
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- Chapter 9 of the textbook and lecture notes, as well as the kinship unit from chapter 10.
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- Natasha Gidluck
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