ANTA02H3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7
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Lecture 7 marriage & family: kinship symbols & terms. These are the people who had part in your procreation many generations ago. collateral is a side branch such as cousins, uncles and aunts: domestic life. smallest, basic units of society and can be through family and household or a combination of both. family is hard to define when considering all cultures. in canada, family is defined as anyone that is married or common-law people with or without children or lone-parent with children. in brazil, a family includes ones parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and grandparents, not the spouse. Children become part of a family later on. household is defined spatially as how many people live in a house. They can be adopted or given a kinship status such as a slave who is adopted after many years to be part of the kinship. A household is a locus of consumption, child rearing and shelter: family.
