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anthro - marriage family and kinship
Flashcards do conjunto (20)
- 1what is family- family is a social and economic unit consisting of minimally 1 or more parents or substitutes and their children
- 2family of orientation 2 typesconsanguineal kin, affinal kin
- 3consanguineal kin- those related by blood
- 4affinal kinrelated by marriage
- 5kinship charting- writing down who is related to who,
- need a point of orientation
- mapping the social reality about what is
- standards abbreviations and symbols used - 6a starting point to marriage- not universally tied to family scenario
- not universally tied with faith
- talked about as long term but divorce starts in some form or other
- marriage is often between members of opposite sex - 7marriage- a socially approved sexual and economic union, between partners
- legal implications around property finance and participants - 8The NA exceptions- typically do not marry
- women live with their mothers
- men come into houses at night, get sucky sucky, the leave before breakfast - 9why is marriage nearly universal?- gender division of labour
- prolonged infant/child dependancy
- sexual competition
- transfer of wealth - 10universal incest taboo- perhaps the most rigid regulation specifying whom one may or may not marry is incest taboo
- 11marital rights- Edmund leach (1955)
-legal mother and father of offspring
- monopoly in the sexuality of other spouse
- rights to labour of the other spouse
- rights over property of other spouse
- - 12economic aspects of marriage- bride price
- bride service
- exchange of females
-gift exchange
- dowry
- indirect dowry - 13marriage across cultures- outside industrial societies, marriage is often more a relationship between groups than between individuals
- romantic love can exist, but marriage is a group concern - 14whom should one marry?- arranged marriages
- exogamy and endogamy
- cousin marriages
- levirate and sororate - 15endogamy- mating or marriage within the group to which one belongs
- most cultures are endogamous units
- classes and ethnic groups within society may be quasi-endogamous - 16exogamy- practices of seeking marriage outside ones own group
- 17how many does one marry?polygyny and polyandry
- 18polygyny- a practice in which men are allowed to be married to more than one woman at the same time
- sororal polygyny
- nonsororal polygyny - 19polyandry- practice whereby one woman is allowed to be married to more than one man
- fraternal polyandry
-non fraternal polyandry - 20divorce- marriages as political alliances between groups are harder to break up than marriages that are more individual affairs
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