ANT 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Consanguinity, Nuclear Family, Kinship

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 160
• Professor: Renee Bonzani

Document Summary

As a consequence, they create institutions that also reproduce in time and space: social institutions vary according to the demographic scale of the group or communities, social institutions also create "identity". This individual identity varies from the self, to the family, to the political institutions to which the individual identifies as belonging. Identity is based on the individual"s perception of space and time or their conception of territoriality. This can change through time: remember that natural selection works at the level of the individual. It is the individual who makes choices as to what groups she/he belongs to in order to increase his/her reproductive success: all social institutions create forms of identity that also relate to the complexity of subsistence diversity. Inter-community level: the diversity of arrangements are based on grades from kinship to political and economic affiliations, these forms are bands, tribes, chiefdoms, states, and nation-states.