Week 11 Flashcards
Monogamy
The marriage practice of having a single spouse
Polygamy
the marriage practice of having two or more spouses
Polygyny
the marriage practice of having two or more wives at the same time
Polyandry
the marriage practice of having two or more husbands at the same time
Endogamy
The practice of marrying within one’s social or ancestral group
- Increases the risk of the expression of harmful recessive genes. With severe inbreeding, genetic diseases become hard to escape
Exogamy
the practice of marrying outside one’s social or ancestral group
-Socially, this practice links families from differ-ent communities together, creating alliances
-. Bioculturally, it acts to broaden the gene pool of any intermarrying group. This limits the possibility for inbreeding and leads to more genetic diversity
Neolocal
-a residence pattern in which a husband and wife move to their own household after marriage
Matrilocal
a residence pattern in which a husband moves to his wife’s household of orientation
Patrilocal
A residence pattern in which a wife moves to her husband’s household of orientation
Bilateral descent
the act of tracing one’s genealogy through both the mother’s and father’s line
Unilineal descent
tracing one’s genealogy through either the mother’s or father’s line
-One lineage only is responsible for the continuation of the family’s name and possessions, such as landholdings or other inherited items.
Third genders
A person could self-identify as one of three genders: masculine man, feminine woman, or other not-man not-woman.
Gender fluid
Individuals whose gender varies over time. A gender fluid person may at any time identify as male, female, agender, or any other non-binary identity, or some combination of identities.
Genderqueer identity
Individuals who identify as neither male nor female (but as another gender), as somewhere in between or beyond genders, or as a combination of genders
