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Week 6: Kinship, Marriage, and Family Flashcards

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Kinship in relation to mode of production and political structure

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  • Kinship in relation to mode of production and political structure
  • Tribes, horticultural, some pastoral societies, ranked, kinship and marriage, extended family
  • Chieftainships, food-producing, stratified, centralized, kinship and marriage, slaves through warfare, extended family
  • States, food producing and industrial, stratified, centralized, citizenship, nuclear or extended family
  • Nuclear family is what is familiar to most of us
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Social Institution

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  • Kinship
  • Descent Groups
  • Marriage
  • Family
  • Community
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Marriage and Family

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  • Marriage and family help organize social roles, rights, and responsibilities
  • Many forms of marriage have existed throughout time and across cultures
  • Many diff types of marriage, some dont have same etc
  • Ghost marriage, and your not having sex with them
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Marriage

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  • Sexual relations are sanctioned
  • Sexual division of labor exists, but resources will be shared
  • Childcare and inheritance are managed
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Monogamy

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Single partner

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Polygamy

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Multiple partners

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Polgyny

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Multiple wives

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Polyandry

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Multiple husbands

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Filiation

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legitimate filiation or parentage flowed from the marriage between the mother of a child and her husband

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Exogamy

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Marriage partners must come from different groups

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Endogamy

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Marriage partners must come from the same group

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Incest taboo

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Universal, certain family members, parents and children taboo, in some cultures cousins are taboo

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Bride price

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Gifts that a groom’s family is required to give to the bride’s family

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Dowry

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Gifts that a bride’s family are required to give to the groom’s family or to the new couple

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Arranged marriage

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(ideally) a mutually beneficial arrangement between two families of similar backgrounds

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Arranged

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A marriage planned and agreed by the families or guardians of the couple concerned rather than by the couple themselves

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Levirate and Sororate

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If husband dies, she marries the brother, if wife dies brother marries the sister

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Polygamy

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A marriage in which one spouse (man or woman) has several other spouses

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Ghost Marriage

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A practice similar to the levirate, whereby a woman marries a man in the name of his deceased brother

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Patrilocal

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husband’s home or community

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Matrilocal

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wife’s home or community

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Avunculocal

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husband’s maternal uncle, husband’s mother’s brother

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Ambilocal

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either or, the couple chooses

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Neolocal

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set up a new, independent household

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Household

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Domestic unit of residence

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Nuclear family

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Neolocal residence

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Extended (joint) family

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  • Matrillocal or patrilocal residence
  • Grandparents, could include like siblings and their spouses, 2-3 generations
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Kinship

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  • Kinship refers to family relations
  • Organizes roles and responsibilities within the family
  • Fictive kinship brings people together in chosen families
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Family Structure

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  • Nuclear
  • Extended
  • Blended
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Unilineal

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  • Patrilineal
  • Matrilineal
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Multilineal

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  • Double descent
  • Ambilineal
  • Bilateral
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Double descent
Ambilineal
Bilateral

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A system of descent in which individuals receive some rights and obligations from the father’s side of the family and others from the mother’s side

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Ambilineal descent

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A form of descent in which a person chooses to affiliate with a kin group through either the male or the female line

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Bilateral descent

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A type of kinship system in which individuals emphasize both their mother’s kin and their father’s kin relatively equally

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Types of Community

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  • Community of location
  • Community of identity
  • Community of purpose
  • Community of circumstance

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