ANTHROP 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Incest Taboo, Bride Price, Horticulture
15 Aug 2016
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Bilineal descent is found in about one third of the world"s cultures mostly in foragers and the industrial/digital cultures which rely on a flexible gender division of labor. Patrilocality-marital residence with their near the husband"s family occurs in patrilineal societies. Matrilocality-marital residence with or near the wife"s family occurs in matrilineal societies. Cross-cultural universal with different forms and functions-every known community has some form of it. Forms the social bonds and relationships needed for child-rearing, defines rights and obligations, creates new alliances and relationships. Marriage is a union between a man and a woman such that children born to the woman are the recognized legitimate offspring of both parents . Same sex marriage-legal in some cultures 17 states have legalized same sex marriages. Native american berdache-boys can take on women"s roles and then may take a husband in the. United states, court of pharaoh niuserre during egypt"s fifth dynasty-this is the first recorded incidence of a same-sex union.
