ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Matrilocal Residence, Patrilineality
Document Summary
Cattle herds, land, and grazing rights are not managed by the patriliny as a whole but by patrilineal households. Distant patrikin are not as important socially as the local community. A widow with no male children to inherit cattle, land and grazing right may marry another woman who does have male offspring. No sex with other men, nor with her wife. She becomes father to the women"s children. The male children of her wife inherit from her. Young women take lovers of equal or higher caste. Children are born members of the matrilineage and subject to the authority of the senior male in the lineage. Most stable form of household known to anthropologists. Each child born is considered part of the lineage wealth. Archaeology is the study of the past using material culture (the stuff we make) Archaeological record = all material objects constructed by humans (or ancestors) revealed by archaeology.
