Ch.7 - Final Flashcards
Kinship system?
relationships in society (based on blood or marriage)
- consanguineal
- affinal
- fictive
consanguineal kin
related through birth or blood
affinal kin
related through marriage
fictive kin
relationships not determined by blood or marriage (adoption, close family friends “aunt”, “uncle”)
kinship diagrams
view from the central POV of the “ego”
kinship etic labels
S = son, F = father etc. Z = sister, MBD = mothers brothers daughter
Descent
a persons kinship connections traced back through generations
Adoption/fostering
taking in children that are not related by blood
Patterns of descent and descent groups
- bilateral
- unilateral
- ambilineal
bilateral descent
related equally to mother and father (USA/Canada)
- common in foraging and industrialism
kindred
(bilateral descent)
group of closely related relatives connected to both parents to one living relative
unilineal
lineage is only traced through the mother or father (not both)
- common in horticulture, agriculture and patroralism
patrilineal descent
(unilineal)
descent is traced through the father (most common) ie. China
- common in pastroralism and agriculture societies
matrilineal descent
(unilineal)
descent through the mother
- common in horticulture (Navaho
- also in Minangkabau (Sumatra, Indonesia), intensive agriculture
ambilineal
choice of kinship group
patriarchy/matriarchy
matriarchy = women have more authority
types of post-marital residences
- matrilocal
- avunculocal
- patrilocal
- ambilocal
- neolocal
matrilocal
(types of post-marital residences)
couple lives with or near the relatives of the wife
avunculocal
(types of post-marital residences)
couple lives with or near the husbands mothers brother