AN101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Compadre, Fula People, Sodality
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An101 chapter 6: social relationships: marriage, family, kinship, and friendship. Relatedness: socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of ways. Start life with mothers individuals bind ourselves to others through alliances. Kinship: social relationships that are prototypically derived from the universal human experiences of mating, birth, and nurturance. Friendship: relatively unofficial bonds that people construct with one another that tend to be personal, affective, and often a matter of choice. Marriages create new relationships: between individuals marrying one another, and their relatives. Community must acknowledge the legitimacy of the new union by participating in the rites of marriage and by accepting the newly married couple into the community. Marriage sets in place alliances that define essential social roles, and delineates rights and obligations at core of social life. Before bill 16 in 1964: woman entering marriage in quebec lost her status as an independent adult unless she had a previously arranged legal contract ( prenup") stating otherwise.
