ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Juf, Patrilineality, Matrilocal Residence
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Image in slide 2 extended family: 3 males are pictured, rural chinese family men share a hearth (stove, houses are constructed to be extended in order for sons and grandsons to bring their wives. Cross cultural reveals that something is not inevitable or natural. There are close, intimate relationships between family, love, sexual desires, wealth. Patrilocal residence: couples live with or near the husband"s parents. Matrilocal residence: couples live with or near the wife"s parents. Ambilocal (or bilocal) residence: postmarital residence location is optional. Couples live with or near either the husband"s or wife"s parents: foragers. Neolocal residence: couples establish a separate household apart from both the husband and wife"s parents, in capitalist societies children do not have any inheritance do not rely on family for livelihood, rather labour market. One way kinship systems vary cross-culturally is in whether the most important relationships are traced through males, females, or both sexes.
