ANTH 2001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bilateral Descent, Kinship, Exogamy
15 Dec 2016
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Anth 2001 05/11/15 kinship, marriage, family. Kinship is the complex system of culturally defined social relationships based on marriage and birth. Consanguinity refers to relationships based on birth. Affinity refers to kinship relationships based on marriage. Fictive kinship refers to relationships based on neither affinity nor consanguinity. Motherhood is a type of kinship relation this is referenced in death without. This relationship is not determined by biology, a common misconception when thinking about kinship. Kinds of descent: descent is a kinship rule that ties people together on the basis of reputed common ancestry. Patrilineal descent (e. g. bhil, chinese) where descent is traced through the men in the family. Matrilineal descent (e. g. apache, iroquois) where descent is traced through the women in the family. Bilateral descent (e. g. many european-americans) where descent is traced through both genders. Descent group: a permanent social unit whose members claim common ancestry.
