ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Spirit Spouse, Economic Anthropology, Ethnography

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Max Friesen

Document Summary

In economic anthropology the question is more social science focused rather than the course of humanities. Options: selection by family (parents will choose a partner for you in consultation with another family. This happens all over the world, even in toronto in certain ethnic communities. There is no evidence that marriage that starts in this way are worse than marriages with love as the foundation. Economic factors of marriage is also very important. Self-selection by potential partners: love marriage was not the traditional way for marriage. When people fall in love, it was usually outside of marriage. In romeo and juliet by shakespeare, the theme of wanting to get married for love and not for family alliances rose. Relatedness (last week"s lecture) also comes into play when people marry for love because it brings the different families together. Even in love marriage, there are economic considerations.