ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Consanguinity, Financial Crimes, Dowry
Document Summary
Public presentation of transfer of goof by bride"s kin to groom"s family or directly to the newlyweds. Transferred wealth may represent woman"s inheritance (share) of family wealth. Voluntary gift compensating daughter for not receiving land and other family property. Dowry usually in form of personal or household goods. Dowry as jewelry source of security for bride (hers to keep) However, most have no control over dowry mother-in-law and husbands take control. Marriage, families, and kinship in comparison: ethnographic examples. Trobriand biological father not perceived to be a blood relative (consanguineal) Trobrianders maintain that every child should resemble its mothers husband. Child shares mothers blood and her siblings. A father related to the child a mother"s husband . It is incestuous for a son to have sexual contacts with his mother. It is an economic crime for a man to have sexual contacts with his.
