ANTH 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Patrilineality, Vanir, Cousin Marriage
29 Oct 2015
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Wednesdays lm is more bollywood - richness of lm lies beyond it"s plot- nd online watch before monday. Married woman is in a stronger economical position - inherit money and land --side note. They are relevant in understanding kinship in soth asia but are not perfect. These ideas are important- they are common in the way ppl think about marriage but at the same time how poles relationship and thoughts on this changes over time. The way they call eachother they shouldn"t marry but they do leading one to believe they are cross cousins. Because of the eat their mothers address eachother, they then have they"re own way of calling eachother. This makes them no ideal couple but forbidden couple. The way they address eachother goes against the tide of social marital norms. In the charts she gave to us it re ects the traditional binary system of gender.
