ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Masculinity, Bride Price, Nuclear Family
● Kinship chart: visual representation of family relationships
● Corporate groups: real people who work together toward common
ends- nuclear & natal families
● Extended families: larger group of relatives beyond nuclear family
● Clan: special group of relatives who are all descended from a single
ancestor- clan membership often vague & assumed rather than
empirically known
● Exogamous: clan members must marry someone from another clan-
build political, econ & social ties w/other clans
● Lineages: people directly descended from known ancestors
● Patrilineal: descended thru males from same ancestor- most common
in non-industrial societies → unilineal: descent thru a single descent
line
● Matrilineal: descent thru women from an ancestral woman
● Cognatic/bilateral: descent thru both mother & father
● Genealogical amnesia: structural process of forgetting whole groups of
relatives
● Bride price: compensates woman's natal family for loss of her
productive & reproductive activities
● Dowry: large sum of money (or furniture, electronics, livestock, etc) to
a daughter to ensure her well-being in her husband’s family
● Polygamy: plural marriage- more common than today
● Polygyny: one man married simultaneously to 2+ women- most
common form of polygamy
● Polyandry: one woman has 2+ husbands at one time
Tiefer- “The Kiss”
● Kisses have psychological factors (memories, hopes, fears), biological
factors (hormones & genetic influences), social factors (religious
values & other’s opinions)
● Kissing= attachment, feels good & can be elaborated into social
situations far removed from its origins
● Sucking experience, use of tongue & lips, aroma of body & skin, touch
on the face- every kiss from infancy on reverberates w/feelings of
attachment, pleasure, feeling good & gives kissing its emotional power
Document Summary
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