ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Consanguinity, Exogamy, Dowry
28 Apr 2016
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Establishes rights of sexual access to a person. Creates links between families through a new social bond. Endogamy marry inside the extended family (most societies discourage this). Incest taboo sex between parents and children or between siblings prohibited. Polygamy take two or more spouses at the same time. Usually you need wealth to afford more wives. Way to accumulate wealth through supply of labor. Way of limiting descendants so not to split up land. Group marriage several men and women have sexual access to each other. Very rare, tends to be experimented with in communes and cults. Levirate wife is required to marry brother of her dead husband. Gives widow security for her and her children. Gives husband"s family rights over her children and their descendents. Sororate man marries the sister of his dead wife. Serial monogamy person lives with several partners in succession (successive divorces and marriages or common law marriage). Institutional marriage catholic nuns marry the church.
