Anthropology 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Exogamy, Dowry, Acculturation
14 Nov 2014
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Kinship: why do anthropologists care: humans will live in social groups. It is an intimate and a boarder set of relationships. Family after a certain age no longer, influence our main decisions such as where we live. There is a lot of variety in kins in the non-western countries. Definitions: kin group: a group of related people who share common interests and a sense of common identity and who cooperate in certain kinds of activities. Family of orientation: family into which a person [ego] is born. Humans are born before the brain is fully formed: the gendered division of labor found to varying degrees in all cultures; and, the definition of sexual intercourse within the nuclear family as incestuous. Marry out or die out hypothesis o: relates to the incest, meaning they take mates from outside their family group, there is always rules about who you cannot mat with is variable o. Marrying into other is away to stabilize economically.
