ANTH 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Umiak, Harpoon, Mediacorp
17 May 2020
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A nuclear family consists of a married couple and their children. An extended family consists of a married couple, their children, and other relatives, such as grandparents or aunts and uncles. Successful men sometimes practiced polygyny (marrying more than 1 woman) Often it was the sister of the wife and her husband died. Both the extended and nuclear family were throughout the arctic culture area. Villages included one or more nuclear or extended families. Up to a few hundred individuals in the western arctic. Around 50 in the central and eastern arctic, sometimes in only one house. Larger villages often had a separate men"s meeting house. Societies were groups of villages within a geographic region. Members of a society spoke a distinct dialect (could still understand other dialects) They wore a distinctive style of clothing. Society populations ranged between 150 and 2,000 people; average 450. About 200 societies existed within the culture area.
