L48 Anthro 141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Incest Taboo, Parallel And Cross Cousins, Exogamy
Document Summary
Kinship and domestic life: kinship: a sense of being related to others, blood relatives, oher relationships (e. g. marriage, behavior, denoting kinship, kinship diagrams: start with ego and work up, genealogy: start with ancestors and work down. Kinship by descent: patterns of descent, unilineal, matrilineal, patrilineal, bilineal, patterns of residence: tendency to follow prevailing descent rules, patrilocality, matrilocality, neolocality. Kinship terms: culturally constructed rules for determining, who is a relative, nature of relationship, kinship by sharing, food sharing, adoption/fostering, ritually-established kinship. Kinship by marriage: marriage: a more or less stable union, usually between two people, who may be, but are not necessarily, co-residential, sexually involved, and procreative, spouse selection. Incest taboo: serves important social and economic functions, serves to prevent genetic diseases, endogamy: marrying within the group, parallel cousin, cross-cousin, exogamy: marrying outside the group, hypergyny: women marry up, hypogyny: women marry down.
