ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Matriarchy, Racialization, Matrilineality
18 Sep 2016
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Why do we get married: social recognition as a new family unit, legal recognition, right of passage, sex, livelihood, reproduction, alliance, love. What is kinship: how people are related to one another, kin - family and relatives, includes biological descent and affiliation through social practices like marriage, how kinship relations are formed and reckoned varies from one culture to another. Family one is born into. (e. g. the people and families one is parents, grandparents, siblings, connected to after birth. other social institutions cousins, etc. ) (e. g. in-laws, step parents, soul mates , blood brothers or sisters ) Key thought: kinship terms and conceptualizations do not necessarily reflect the biological facts of reproduction (delaney, Example: the akha of southeast asia: reside in upland areas of continental southeast asia, patrilineal: every akha belongs to a named patrilineage, heavy emphasis on genealogy. It"s said the akha males should be able to recite their patrilineal genealogy, back over 50 generations to the first.
