ANT 10CD Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Patrilineality, Dowry, Polyamory
5 Apr 2016
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Paid by groom"s family to the bride"s family. Buys the rights to the children (progeny price) Paid by the bride"s family to the groom"s family. The woman"s property is held in trust by irst her father and then her husband. An insurance policy passed from mother to daughter incase they become widowed and there"s no son to rely on. India requires the groom to take economic liability for the woman. Sororate: the requirement to provide a replacement wife by the family of the woman who dies or if the woman can"t reproduce. Monogamy: union between 2 people (lifetime, sometimes serial) *found in the mongolian herding peoples where a group of brothers marries one woman and paternity is ascribed to the oldest brother. If a man has no sons, then he ascribes the role of son to a daughter, whom he then marries of to another woman after giving his inheritance to his son .
