MARRIAGE AND FAMILY Flashcards
it is the custom for formalizing a relatinship between two people (their sexual and economic rights) through a contract (legal document) in the sense of permanence
MARRIAGE
FUNCTION OF MARRIAGE
✓ mating and reproduction
✓ division of labor
✓ provide needs of their children (material, educational, emotional)
RESTRICTION ON MARRIAGE PARTNERS
✓ exogamy
✓ endogamy
✓ arranged marriage
✓ preferential cousin marriage
✓ levirate and sororate
RESTRICTION ON MARRIAGE PARTNERS
marrying sum1 outside the family (not blood related)
exogamy
RESTRICTION ON MARRIAGE PARTNERS
marrying sum1 within the family (blood related) [incentuous]
endogamy
RESTRICTION ON MARRIAGE PARTNERS
the marriage control is not on both of the couples/spouses
arranged marriage
RESTRICTION ON MARRIAGE PARTNERS
marriage between cousins
preferential cousin marriage
two kinds of preferential cousin marriage
✓ cross cousins
✓ parallel cousins
marrying cousin (anak ni tito na kapatid ni mama) or (anak ni tita na kapatid ni papa)
cross cousin
marrying cousin (anak ni tita na kapatid ni mama) o (anak ni tito kapatid ni papa)
parallel cousin
RESTRICTION ON MARRIAGE PARTNERS
marrying widowed spouses of your siblings
levirate and sororate
man marries his brother’s (dead) wife
levirate
woman marries her sister’s (dead) husband
sororate
NUMBER OF SPOUSES
✓ monogamy
✓ polygyny
✓ polyandry
NUMBER OF SPOUSES
one man to one women
monogamy
NUMBER OF SPOUSES
one man to two or more women
polygyny
NUMBER OF SPOUSES
one women to two or more men
polyandry
MARRIAGE: TRANSFER OF RIGHTS
✓ rights of sexual access
✓ legal rughts to children
✓ rights to each other’s economic goods and services
ECONOMIC TRANSACTION OF MARRIAGE
✓ bridewealth
✓ bride service
✓ dowry
✓ reciprocal exchange