ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cultural Universal, Unilineality, Patrilineality
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Kinship systems (less than of us household) Nuclear family: consists of a married couple and their children in the same household. Family of orientation: the family youre born into. Family of procreation: the family when you get married and have children. Extended family household (three or more generations) seen as an adaptation to poverty. Two basic units of social organizations for foragers. Bands: multiple families come together to form a band- most only formed for part of the year. Nuclear families are more stable than bands. Decent groups: social unity and solidarity are based on belief of ancestry. Lineage: unilineal descent (using only one line) group based on demonstrated descent. Ambilineal descent: people chose the descent group to which they belong. Some cultures you can belong to two or more. How people in a society recon their kin relationships. American kinship is bilateral (traced equally on both sides) Based on how people perceive similarities and differences.
