ANTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bilateral Descent, Cousin Marriage, Kinship Terminology

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 100
• Professor: R.Robin Dods

Document Summary

Kinship: relationships that are either (i) consanguineal (blood) your m, f, b, z, s, d, gf, gm, a, u, c (ii) marital (marriage) h, w, sw, dh, etc (iii) fictive ( honorary) ex. Mom"s friend you refer to as aunt: primary components and letter symbols of kin type. Mother [m], father [f], sister [z], brother [b], daughter [d], son [s], husband. [h], wife [w: ego: perspective from which members are named of catergorized, examples of compound strings of kin type. Mother"s sister [mz], mother"s sister"s daughter [mzd], sister"s son [zs] Bifurcation: terms that distinguish m"s side from f"s side of the family. Relative age: older of younger (with respect to ego) may determine the terms used. Sex of the linking relative: (goes with collaterality), for example the distinctions b/w cousins in some societies. Nuclear family: consists of a couple and dependent children. How do role and kinship term articulate: Cousins, brothers and sisters: example one: english terms (eskimo system)