ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Extended Family, Nuclear Family, Endogamy
9 Dec 2015
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Defining and regulating reciprocal obligations between related (not. Social relationships derived from the universal human experiences of mating, birth, and/or nurturance necessarily blood relations but being related through affection/personal matters, having responsibilities, intimate) individuals. Marriage: relationships based on culturally sanctioned mating partners: tends to occur when there is transfer of property (heir) and males need to know who their children are and want to support their children, not other children. Sex: the biological sex of an individual male/female. Sex, gender, and sexuality: supernumerary: like travesties, mostly one sex but have traits of other, hermaphroditism: being/having organs of both male and female. Sexuality: sexual orientation (preference of type of sex partner) Bilateral descent: descent determined equally from both mother and father. Unilateral descent: descent determined mostly from either mother or father (equal importance of knowing both sides: lineage tracing single ancestor through parent linkages, patrilineage father-child links, matrilineage child-child links.
