IAFF 6101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.3: Bilateral Descent, May Fourth Movement, Exogamy
12 May 2016
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Economists at the wb writing on culture (under amartya sen"s guidance) Chap 11: state policies and women"s agency in china, rok, and india. Patrilocality normative for couples to live in the man"s home. Patrilireality group membership passes on through male line. Lineage-based systems of kinship and inheritance -> marginalization of women. Rok successfully achieved rapid economic growth while maintaining fundamental aspects of family organization deeply inimical to gender equity (235). Men are the fixed point, women the moving points due to the strictly exogamous lineage (237). In asia, an adult woman has no socially acceptable role in her parental family except as a visitor. Marriage does not create new partnership -> bringing in women to bear children and provide labor (238). Regional heterogeneity in kinship systems pockets of matrilineal kinship in northern india and. Kerala, non-han minorities, burma, and thailand (bilateral kinship system).
