ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Matrilocal Residence, Patrilineality, Phratry
5 Dec 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Kinship and descent underlie all social economic and political relationships in small-scale societies. Kinship: social relationships, that link people along through, genealogical lines, these lines connect people backward through the ancestors, forward through peoples descendants. All societies recognize relationships, between parents and their children. Kin relationships, are also called consanguineal -> this means con (to join) sang (blood) In a general sense, kinship studies in anthropology are concerned with the relationships that people have through consanguinity, through marriage ties as well. The relationships we have through marriage are called affinal means in laws. Descent refers to the principles, cultural patterning that seeks senses of this mess of relationships that we have through biology, through blood relationships and as well as through our in-laws. Different societies organize relationships in different ways: unilineal-> uni means one, two types: matrilineal (does not equate to matriarchy) descent is traced through the female line; i. e.
