ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Enculturation, Consanguinity, Family Of Sets
25 Sep 2020
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Nuclear families are a couple (usually male and female but can be others) and their children, living in the same household. Provides for: primary arena for valid and sanctioned sexual activity, primary acts as primary area for enculturation of children reproductive function. Primary learning and the stage for essential enculturation activities within society. Extended family generally consist of 3-4 generations of related people who are living within the same enclosed compound or in the same apartment complex. Common in third world countries and rural industrialized countries. Common among new immigrants in industrial countries. Special type of extended family arrangement exists among the nayar of southern india called tarawads. Consists of different lineal generatins of women and their brothers and all the children of the women. Marriage among the nayar is a brief formality. Once married, the husband might never return. Women and children rarely know or care about their real fathers.
