ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Reproduction, Patrilineality
5 Aug 2020
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Descent is bilateral equally related to people from your mother"s side and your father"s side. Eskimo: (american kinship terminology) only have terms for parent, child, brother/sister, cousin, aunt/uncle; grand-, great-, step-, second-, third-, etc. family is less important that other factors (economics) Marriage is typically monogamous (serial monogamy has become more common) Residence patterns involve neolocality a new household is established and proximity to. Patrilocality: residing w/ husband"s family after marriage common with patrilineal societies difficult for young wives who need to start over in a new, unfamiliar place w/o their own family. Matrilocality: residing w/ wive"s family after marriage less common. Levirate: a husband dies and a widow marries his brother. Sororate: a wife dies and the widower marries her sister. Polyandry: rare but found in south asia, in which brothers marry the same woman to keep property within the family less children which women marry younger men more children.
