ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Human Relations Area Files, Incest Taboo, Cousin Marriage
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Kinship is a remnant of small scale family. Kin classification: consanguine vs. affinal kin, blood relatives vs. relatives through marriage, lineal vs. Collateral kin: direct vs. parallel lines of descent. This is a network of relationships that are related. Compare canada and brazil, what is the definition of family: residential unit is seen as this is my family, of they are not blood related, in canada: married or common law couple with or without children. Legal definition of family: brazil: family is parent, siblings, aunt, uncles and grandparents, then children, they are shared with spouse, spouse is not considered apart of family, household. People that reside under the same rook this is a residential unit unit of economic production. All societies have distolled kinship term: aunt or uncle: have reciprocal relations as regular kin would same sex families, where people choose their family. Murdoch social structure (1949) 1st major cross cultural comparison / basis of.
