ANTH 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bride Service, Hypergamy, Exogamy
2 Jul 2019
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Culture makes many decisions about who we are related to but biology plays a definite role. Family is culturally constructed and family ties are not guaranteed by blood relation. Kinship is a cultural system that defines familial relationships and obligations. Descent primary relationships traced through consanguine (blood) relations. Can either be unlineal such as patrilineal or matrineal, or ambilineal/bilateral. Endogamy: practice of marrying someone from within a specified group. Exogamy: practice of marrying someone from outside your group. Hypergamy: marrying someone of a higher social or. Bride service: husband must work for a period of time for his wife"s family in exchange for his marital rights. Bridewealth: cash or goods are given by the groom"s kin to the bride"s kin to seal a marriage. Dowry: presentation of goods by the bride"s kin to the groom"s family. Monogamy: allows someone to have only one spouse at a time. Polygamy: allows individuals to have more than one spouse.
