ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pastoralism, Granary, Polytheism
2 Dec 2014
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In-law kin created: functions of marriage, economic, politics, governing sexual access between adults, children socially legitimate children, sexual divisions of labour. Forms of marriage: monogamy (one marriage) 2 spouses, polygamy (many marriages) 1 spouse with additional partners, polygyny (many women) 1 man with more than one wife, polyandry (many men) 1 woman has more than one husband. Polygyny: demographic imbalance, more women than men, men are fighting and dying, children, larger in number, economics. Men are associated with land: demographic imbalance, shortage of women, slowing down the growth of the family (slow population growth) Selecting a spouse: exogamy (outside marriages, marrying outside the group (tahltan, endogamy (inside marriages, marrying inside the group. Nayar exception : exception to universality of marriage rule, nayar (group from southern india, matrilineal society, horticulturalists, families are property owning groups, men fight, water qranary, temple, senior woman. ) girl rite of passage adulthood: sam bandham, sexual relationship, approved, children will not be socially illegeitiment, gift exchange.
