AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Incest Taboo, Bride Service, Exogamy
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Refers to the anthropological, cross-cultural study of family composition, marriage and descent patterns. Use of the present tense to describe a culture, although the description may refer to situations that exited on the past. A system in which individual trace their descent through both parents. The family group consisting of parents and their biological or adopted children. A system of descent in which person are related to their kin though the mother only. A system of descent in which person are related to their kin though the father only. The requirement that when a couple marries, the groom must work for the bride"s parents for some specified time. A lineage that is formed by tracing descent in the female line. A family group based on blood relations or three or more generations. A lineage that is formed by tracing descent in the male line.
