AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Stuart Mill, Prenuptial Agreement, Mosuo
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Marriage creates family and kinship: kinship diagram (basic diagram shown , kin by blood & marriage. Consanguinity blood relationships or consanguineal kin. Affinity affinal kin; relationships created through marriage. Informed by culture (diverse forms), different ways of defining marriage. Institutes rules and rights around children, property, sexuality. Marriage is a social process: process of being constantly evolving and changing, creates kin relationships beyond the family, esta(cid:271)lishes a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s status, lo(cid:272)atio(cid:374) (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) ki(cid:374)ship, dynamic and changing. Marriage & gender relationships: equal or unequal relationship. John stuart mill in the subjection of women (1869) Ma(cid:396)(cid:396)iage (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e (cid:858)good(cid:859) a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ot ha(cid:396)(cid:373)ful if it is (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) e(cid:395)ualit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d justi(cid:272)e, (cid:271)ut often is not. Quebec civil code prior to bill 16 (1964), women lost independent status as adult. Prior to bill c-3 (2011), native women could not pass their ethnic status to children if they married outside their group. Marriage is a contract: pre-nuptial agreement: marriage contract legal document/payment of cash.
