ANTC15H3 Lecture : Is there a family.docx
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Is there a family?- collier, rosaldo, and yanagisako. Family is viewed as a natural category stemming from our need to relate to our closest kin. Family (tf) has become an ideal to be achieved rather than a reality. We don"t pay attention to its cross- cultural nation or to the complexity of human interactions as they occur. M wrote that australian aborigines were not sexually promiscuous and distinguished legal marriages from casual unions. Thus, marriage was indubitably cast as a universal human institution that filled a human need. Overview: families exist to nurture the young. There were three main features of these marriages. First, these were bounded units defined by husband and wife. This didn"t necessarily imply extramarital affairs, but it did imply a mother, father and child. Second, there was a shared common space for this family (i. e. a hearth or fire). Third, there was an emotional investment between generations.
