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1
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Kinship system?

A

relationships in society (based on blood or marriage)

  • consanguineal
  • affinal
  • fictive
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consanguineal kin

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related through birth or blood

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affinal kin

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related through marriage

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fictive kin

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relationships not determined by blood or marriage (adoption, close family friends “aunt”, “uncle”)

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5
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kinship diagrams

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view from the central POV of the “ego”

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kinship etic labels

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S = son, F = father etc. Z = sister, MBD = mothers brothers daughter

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Descent

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a persons kinship connections traced back through generations

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Adoption/fostering

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taking in children that are not related by blood

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Patterns of descent and descent groups

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  1. bilateral
  2. unilateral
  3. ambilineal
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bilateral descent

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related equally to mother and father (USA/Canada)

- common in foraging and industrialism

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kindred

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(bilateral descent)

group of closely related relatives connected to both parents to one living relative

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unilineal

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lineage is only traced through the mother or father (not both)
- common in horticulture, agriculture and patroralism

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patrilineal descent

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(unilineal)
descent is traced through the father (most common) ie. China
- common in pastroralism and agriculture societies

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matrilineal descent

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(unilineal)
descent through the mother
- common in horticulture (Navaho
- also in Minangkabau (Sumatra, Indonesia), intensive agriculture

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ambilineal

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choice of kinship group

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16
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patriarchy/matriarchy

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matriarchy = women have more authority

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types of post-marital residences

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  1. matrilocal
  2. avunculocal
  3. patrilocal
  4. ambilocal
  5. neolocal
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matrilocal

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(types of post-marital residences)

couple lives with or near the relatives of the wife

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avunculocal

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(types of post-marital residences)

couple lives with or near the husbands mothers brother

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patrilocal

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(types of post-marital residences)

couple lives with or near the husbands father

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ambilocal

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(types of post-marital residences)

couple has choice of living with/near relatives of wife or husband

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neolocal

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(types of post-marital residences)

independent residence away from relatives

23
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residence and kinship patterns

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Do not necessarily correlate. ie. Asanta people of Ghana follow matrilineal descent but practice patrilineal residence

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Marriage

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formalizing the relationship between adult partners

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functions of marriage

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  • regulate sexual and economic rights
  • division of labour
  • formalize relationship
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mate selection - rules

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  1. incest taboo
  2. endogamy
  3. exogamy
  4. arranged marriages
  5. parallel cousins vs. cross-cousins
  6. levirate and sororate
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incest taboo

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mating between immediate family (nuclear)

28
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endogamy

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marrying within the same group (ie. Hindu castes) or class, ethnicity

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exogamy

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marrying outside of a group

30
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arranged marriages

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found in elaborate social hierarchies (Hindu India), union of “two kin groups”

31
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parallel cousins vs. cross cousins

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PC = same sex cousins 
CC = opposite sex
32
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Levirate and sororate

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Levirate = widow is expected to marry brother of deceased husband

Sororate - widower is expected to marry sister of deceased wife

33
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monogamy

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one partner at a time

34
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serial monogamy

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partners one after another (common in Canada, USA, W. Europe)

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polygamy

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multiple partners at the same time

36
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polygyny

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(polygamy)

marriage of a man to two or more women (India, China)

37
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polyandry

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(polygamy)
marriage of a woman to two or more men (Tibet, Nepal)
- not common, can be Fraternal (all brothers)

38
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marriage gifts/transactions

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  1. dowry
  2. bridewealth
  3. bride service
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dowry

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(marriage gifts/transactions)

money from bride to the husbands family

40
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bridewealth

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(marriage gifts/transactions)

compensation from the family of the groom to the bride (Maasai)

41
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bride service

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(marriage gifts/transactions)

men give labour to bride’s family (common in foraging societies)

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divorce

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formal dissolution of a marriage

43
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family

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social unit, economic and social cooperation

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Types of family

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  1. nuclear

2. extended

45
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nuclear

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(Types of family)
2 generation family surrounding the parents and the children (Canada/USA) - common in industrialized societies

also includes blended (divorced families)

46
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extended

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2 or more nuclear families

47
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matrifocal

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single parent - mother and children

48
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new reproductive technologies

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IVF
sperm banks
surrogacy

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