SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Matrilocal Residence, Nuclear Family
3 Dec 2018
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Did not worship material goods - liability (too many would make it impossible to survive) Only took necessary things with them when moving. Kin ordered (related by blood/legal ties) - organized around your family. Whole family was seen as extended family. (not a nuclear family) the entire community was one big family. Never married someone from your own community - married someone from a neighboring community. Communities were headed by elders (women and men) - shared power. Women appointed the male chief and had power over him to take away his title. Men died during hunting therefore there were very few elders left. Matrolineal: children were known as being part of their mother"s family/clan. Women had the most power; families would side with the woman (economic power) Men hunted (35%) and women gathered (65%) (not because of patriarchy but because women were more valuable to the community than men) Needed women in the community to give birth.
