ANTH 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: New Taiwan Dollar, Internal Fixation
24 Oct 2015
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Ie means stem family in japan: two major characteristics: Kinship and descent: descent is traced bilaterally (but stem family-based) Succession the position of the household head usually given to males, including adopted sons/husbands: residence there are three types of residence, patrilocal, matrilocal, neolocal. Parent-child succession and co-residence: bride and mother-in-law, or adopted husbands and his affines (wife"s relatives) Siblings brothers (no one wants to remain in stem family, business, etc), sisters (when they"re left to remain in stem family before marriage they have fairly close relationships, after marriage it becomes distant) Characteristics of the stem family: economic ie can be a work unit, it allocates duties and resources, can be a unit holding property, inheritance (family businesses, assets)
