ANTH 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gender Binary, Kin Canada, Bargaining
24 Nov 2016
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Mehinaku men and women (a sociology of marriage, sex, and affection) by thomas gregor. Community displays gender binary along with gender roles and jobs. Gender binary allowed the men to keep their masculinity. Marriage is important, gives men --> food and power and affection, women ---> social standing and travelling. Marriage provides social contracts, more of an economic strategy. Anthropological definitions about marriage, kinship and families. Kinship and kinsmen- family and relationships, cultural system of classification, how your relatives are related to you and what that means, descent system, relationship of the man in the family, all social constructs. How you interact with them, who has control of what. Based on people who are related to you by blood or marriage (david snider). Descent- how a culture defines and classifies ancestors. Romanticism- based on love, but in most cultures marriage is based on economic, political, and social constructs. Transformed by ritual of marriage, and your social status changes.
