ANP 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dowry, Bride Service, Patrilineality
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Endogamy: marrying within one"s group, preserve similarity and group cohesion, and to restrict access to wealth, power, and/or land. Monogamy: married to one person at a time, serial monogamy. Neolocal residence: new couple set up their own independent household. Patrilocal residence: new couple must live with the groom"s family, often associated with patrilineal kinship. Matrilocal residence: common for man who does brideservice, groom exchange labors for his bride. Avunculocal: ne couple live with the bride"s uncle. Some households are also arranged as nuclear families (extended families: commonly associated with neolocal residence. In marriages such as polygyny, each wife have her own house and the husband visits each one in turn. In patrilineal households, they combine several brothers and their wives and their children: core of the family is the related man. In matrilineal households, the center of the family is the related women. Parallel cousins: children of the mother"s sister or father"s brother.
