ANTH-2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Edmund Leach, Monogamy, Bride Price
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The current definition: marriage as a domestic partnership. Types of marriages: the practical side of marriage, marital rights: edmund leach argued that the rights allocated by marriage include: In non: social functions of marriage in non industrial societies, how to maintain a strategic marriages, social functions of marriage in industrial societies. In non-industrial societies: often to fulfill certain social needs or expectations. In industrial societies:often based on sexual orientations, gender identities, and emotional preference. How is marriage regulated: among human societies, marriage is regulated mainly through. In non-industrial societies (1) parallel cousins: children of two brothers or two sister (2) cross-cousins: children of a brother and . A sister: kinship structure, exogamy: the practice of seeking a spouse outside one"s own kin group-social alliance, endogamy: marriage of people from the same social group. India"s caste system a) b: royal endogamy, marriage is regulated through laws and policies in modern nations, which vary greatly among nations.