ANT 2410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Consanguinity, Nuclear Family
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Kinship- creation of relatives, most effective strategy developed to form stable, reliable, separate, and deeply connected groups that can last over time and through generations. Meaning and power that cultures create to determine who is related to whom and define mutual perceptions, rights, and responsibilities. Kinship groups in western cultures have biological basis around nuclear family. Many shapes and sizes, created through marriage and remarriage. Studies involve everyday life, relationships to closest people in family. Families can have contestation, experimentation, and change. Social groups organized by genealogical descent with consanguineal relatives (blood relatives), basic units in social organization of nonindustrial food producers.
