Chapter 11 Flashcards
Kinship
Social system that organizes people in families based on decent and marriage
Natal Family
The family which a person is born and in which she/he is usually raised
Nuclear family
The family formed by marriage couple and their children
Kinship chart
a visual representation of family relationships
Corporate groups
Groups of people who work together towards common ends
Extended Families
Larger groups of relatives beyond the nuclear family often living in the same household
Clan
A group of relatives who claim to be descended from a single ancestor
Exogamous
A social pattern in which members of a clan must marry someone from another clan which has the effect of building politics economic and social ties
Patrilineal
Reckoning decent through males from same ancestors
Unilateral
Based on the descent through a single descent line either males or female
Matrilineal
Reckoning descent through women who are descended from an ancestral women
Cognatic
Reckoning descent through either men or women from some ancestors
Genealogical Amnesia
The structural methodology for recording kinship relations and how Lin terms are used in different societies
Culture and personality movement
A school of thought in the early and mid twentieth century American anthropology that studied how patterns of child rearing social institutions and cultural ideologies shaped individual experience personalities characteristics and thought patterns
Bride price
Gifts or money given the the grooms clan or family to compensate the brides clan or family for the loss of one of its women along with her productive reproductive abilities
