ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Old Order Mennonite, Gift Economy, Patrilineality
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It alters the relationship from the kin to each other. Its symbolically mark by a wedding : there are different parents of living after marriage. In video from leftover women, they teach the child to call the head of household, grandpa. Marriage and wealth: bride price/ wealth - transfer of wealth from male to female, dowry - transfer of wealth from female to male. Lineage: group of people formed from there decent from these ancestor, clan- group of people that recognize decent from a common ancestor, patrilineal descent -induvial family derives from and is traced from the fathers linage. Its related to wealth, who gets what financially: old order mennonites in ontario - originally migrated from germany and netherlands due to escaping religious persecution. They believe back then that people should be baptized in. Because they believe people should be older enough to love god: usually older son, gets support from family to buy a farm.
