ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Incest Taboo, Endogamy, Exogamy

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR101
• Professor: Francois Larose

Document Summary

Influences other aspects in the way people live. marriage - in our society: Interdependency. economically, resources are shared. helping one another raise the children. offer one another social support, emotional support, psychologic support. reciprocity. Ceremony / wedding. either religious or civil. you technically only need to sign the papers. ^even the above does not apply to everyone in our culture. in some cultures there is no living together, there is not always interdependency, no ceremony, no faithfulness, etc. *anthropologists have a hard time defining anything. definitions end up being too complex or too simple to be useful. *culturally defined relationship (usually) between a man and a woman *from different families, which. *regulates sexual intercourse and *provides for reproduction. fingers: oricular anular major index thumb. Here we wear a ring on the anular finger of the left hand. Some cultures it is a tattoo, dress, hairstyle. Part of this is telling who is available.