ANTHROP 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Navajo, Immigration, Nuclear Family
28 Dec 2016
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Anthropologists and scholars recognized that kinship systems could regulate social life and organize behavioural systems. Sir henry maine described the shift as one from status to contract. Mile durkheim described the process as a shift from mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity. Human interdependence may be organized through kinship. Patrilineal, matrilineal or bilateral descent (blending of systems) Functions of kinship: kinship carries out the recruiting of group members, provides residence rules. You don(cid:495)t marry your sibling (mothers and sons and fathers and daughters: provides intergenerational links, helps to decide succession or inheritance. Know who the person is and where they belong. Socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of ways, including: marriage. Wide variations across cultures but anthropologists agree that marriage is: May involve more than one man or woman (polygamy: ex, mormans. Marriage involves rights and obligations, establishes roles and alliances and change over time. May establish a marriage at a young age because it gives status.
