ANTH 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Patrilineality, Dowry, Unilineality
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Humans are community-oriented and do not live in isolation: kinship (creation of relatives) is how humans form stable and connected groups. Kinship: the system of meaning and power that cultures create to determine who is related to whom and to defined their mutual expectations, rights, and responsibilities: the most powerful community most people have. Nuclear family: the kinship unit of mother, father, and children (generally the. Western concept of family, though it manifests differently across the globe) Descent: one way of constructing kinship groups if through genealogical descent. Cosanguineal relatives- blood relatives: descent groups: a kinship group in which primary relationships are traced through consanguine (blood) relatives. Unilineal descent in which kinship is from one line or another. Ambilineal descent groups trace lineage through both (bilateral or cognatic: the nuer of southern sudan. Evans-pritchard studied the nuer people of southern sudan. They are a patrilineal, pastoral community and exogamous (marriages within the group were not permitted: searching for kinship patterns.
