ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Langkawi, Exogamy, Consanguinity

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Shawn Lehman

Document Summary

Biological aspect: foreign accents always appear in the speech of people learning a language after a critical maturation period. Provided the language learned is of a different language family. Something the community ascribes to the speaker. Ethnicity operates at the social level foreign accents mark ethnicity. Not a random group, more to them then just being a random group of individuals. What is meant by family varies from society to society. Share identity, economic and other practical functions, residence; act as a unit towards others. They are an imagined person we believe that . I. e. someone who functions as a daughter, but is not biologically your daughter. Patrilineage: everyone descended from the same male line. Mother is not part of the lineage. Her children belong to her husband"s lineage. Reckon the descent on the father"s side. Matrilineage: reckoned on the female side only.