AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kinship Terminology, Kinship
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A region with one relatively homogeneous human activity or complex of activities (cultures). The environment of where you live influences where you live. Takes in to account: descent and marriage relationships. The principle based on culturally recognized parent=child connections that define what social categories to which people belong. We tend to recognize decent by consanguinity, i. e. , by blood relationships: mother, father, grandparents, grandchildren. We can also recognize as decent a relationship based on nurturance through adoption. In other cultures such as amazonia and melanesia: Descent is not recognized in biological terms. A person is considered the father or the mother of a child when they act as such. In the western world: a father or a mother can disappear most of the life of the child and claim the right of parenthood based on biology. In other cultures: this would be unthinkable.
