Chapter 8 Part 1 Flashcards
Forms of Marriage
What is Monogomy?
To one person at a time
Forms of Marriage
What is Serial Monogamy?
to one person at a time, however many marriages have occurred (death of spouse, divorce etc.)
Forms of Marriage
What is Polygyny?
One man with many wives
Forms of Marriage
What is Polyandry?
One woman with many husbands
What is Levirate?
The practice of a man marrying the widow of his deceased brother.
What is Sororate?
The practice of a woman marrying the husband of her deceased sister.
Types of Cousin Marriages
What is a Parallel Cousin Marriage?
Father’s brother’s children and Mother’s sister’s children
Type of cousin Marriages
What is a Cross-Cousin marriage?
Father’s sister’s children and Mother’s brother’s children
Type of cousin marriages
What is a Matrilateral cross cousin marriage?
Marriage of a man to his mother’s brother’s daughter
Type of cousin marriages?
Patrilateral cross-cousin marriage
Marriage of a man to his father’s sister’s daughter
Marriage Exchanges
Bride-Price or Bride wealth
wealth a man or his family pay to a woman’s family so that their son can acquire her as his bride
Marriage Exchanges
What is Bride Service?
those men without money work for their prospective bride’s father
