AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bhil People, Consanguinity, Patrilineality
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An100 - lecture 7 - kinship and family. Cross-cultural study of family composition, marriage, and descent patterns . Consanguineal families: a parent, his/her children, and their relatives living together. Organizing principle in the cultures" anthropologists formerly studied. The study of kinship is itself symbolic of the anthropological tradition (robbins, 130) Feminal kin (relatives of women married into the village and daughters married outside the village) Clan: members trace descent from an ancestor (patrilineal) or ancestors (matrilineal) Unilineal descent: male or female line is privileged. Bilateral: descent is traced via both parents (non-unilineal: no line is privileged) Changes in ideas about kinship, gender, and marriage. Ex trobriand - deny male role in conception. Ex bari of venezuela - many washes of sperms from different sperms create life. Ex new guinea - husband and wife share blood via intercourse. Ex turkey and other countries - seed and soil theory (delaney) Kinship can be reckoned by other means.
