ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Simultaneum, Endogamy, Exogamy
10 Feb 2014
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The household and the domestic sphere of culture. Preparation+consumption of food, cleaning, grooming, teaching, disciplining young, sleeping, sex. First children are cared for by the couples parents, only after several children they make their own house and nurture. Family groups and the mode of production and reproduction. Cooperation in subsistence because of the sexual division of labour. Most anthropologists believe other groups can fulfill these functions. Nuclear families prevalent in small scale hunting gathering societies high level of mobility, they move on their own but unite with others when resources are abundant. Most cultures do not follow monogamy (cid:0) polygamy: marriage to more than 1 spouse at a time (cid:0) polygyny: several wives share a husband (cid:0) polyandry: several husbands share a wife. Common in horticulture societies women responsible for production(value) (cid:0) sororal polygyny: man marries two or more sisters.
