ANTH 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Exogamy, Joking Relationship, Endogamy
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Marriage for prestige: less and less common or more say from the marriage partners. Rotu(cid:373)a: used to (cid:374)ot (cid:373)eet u(cid:374)til (cid:449)eddi(cid:374)g da(cid:455) (cid:271)ut (cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:272)ouples (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:862)go out(cid:863) a(cid:374)d ha(cid:448)e (cid:373)o(cid:396)e sa(cid:455) i(cid:374) (cid:449)ho the(cid:455) (cid:373)a(cid:396)(cid:396)(cid:455) Moroccan town: young man can ask his mother to make a marriage offe(cid:396) to a pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ula(cid:396) gi(cid:396)l"s pa(cid:396)e(cid:374)ts (cid:449)ho (cid:373)a(cid:455) ask he(cid:396) if she (cid:449)a(cid:374)ts to a(cid:272)(cid:272)ept the offer but dating is still not acceptable. Exogamy and endogamy: exogamy: (cid:373)a(cid:396)(cid:396)iage pa(cid:396)t(cid:374)e(cid:396)s (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e (cid:272)hose(cid:374) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) outside o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) ki(cid:374) g(cid:396)oup or community. If low population density, then usually travel long distances to meet mates. Among horticulturalists and foragers, clear relationship between distance and density: thus, foragers usually longer distances because lower density (!kung) Could be marriage outside a particular group or kin or outside a particular village or group of villages, often spouses come from a distance. Rani khera in india: village of 150 households is linked to 400 other nearby villages.
