ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unit, Acculturation, Himalayas
5 Dec 2013
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Definition of family: couple married or common law- with or without. Dependent children, or a lone parent with dependent children. Marriage and family are found in all human societies. Marriage is an economic relationship= what many anthropologists argue. Before world became industrialized, one of the requisites for a wife. Definition of marriage: socially recognized relationship between a socially recognized male (husband) and a socially recognized female (wife) such that the offspring this couple are socially recognized as the offspring of both husband and wife. Husband can be genitor, or he or she may be the socially recognized father. Socially recognized is problematic but it raises important point that in other cultures, we have things called woman, woman, marriage . This is common in safsahara africa, in indigenous north american. Woman woman marriage emphasizes a couple of points: 75% of world"s cultures, a plural form of marriage is the preferred. The preferred form of marriage in other parts of the world:
