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ANTH1150 - Lecture 4 Notes
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019Anthro - Lecture 6
Key terms/concepts for exam from Chapter 7
• Achieved Statuses / Ascribed Statuses
• A nal
• Family
• Blended Family
• Bridewealth
• Clan
• Endogamy And Exogamy
• Extended Family
• Family Of Choice
• Friendship
• Joint Family
• Kinship
• Lineage
• Marriage
• Monogamy
• Non-Conjugal Family
• Nuclear Family
• Polygamy
• Relatedness
• Unilineal Descent
• Conjugal Family
• Consanguineal
• Dowry
Introduction
Relatedness: the socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of ways
• These include:
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- Marriage
- Family
- Kinship
- Friendship
Marriage
• Wide variations across cultures but anthropologists agree that marriage is an institution that
prototypically involves a man and a woman, transforms the status of the participants, carries
implications about sexual access, gives o spring a position in society, and establishes
connections between the kin of a husband and the kin of a wife
- May involve more than one man or woman • May involve partners of the same sex
- Marriage involves rights and obligations, establishes roles and alliances, and changes
over time
• Marriage creates relationships beyond that of the individuals who marry each other
- A nal: relationships through marriage
- Consanguineal: relationships of descent, regardless of whether the child is related by
birth, adoption, sperm/ovum donation, or surrogacy
Marriage as a Social Process
- Seeing marriage as a social process allows us to describe all forms of marriage
- Levirate: widow marries her deceased husband’s brother
- Sororate: widower marries his deceased wife’s sister
- Ghost marriage: male kinsman takes a wife in the name of a deceased relative who dies
without male heirs
- Female husbands: a woman takes the role of a man, takes a wife, and becomes the
father of the wife’s children
- Endogamy: marriage within a de ned social group
• E.g., caste, ethnicity, religion, class
- Exogamy: marriage outside a de ned social group
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