ANTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Nuclear Family, Descent Ii
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The sense of being related to somebody: descent consanguineal relations, marriage affinal relations, adoption, sharing (food, resources, ritual. Predominant form of kin relationships and related behavior. Kinship principles=to assign group members: who to marry (reproduction, where group members live (residence rules, how to establish relations through generations, how to pass on positions or goods (interitance) To construct kinship relations: descent, marriage, adoption, ritual kinship. Consanguinal members of descent groups who believe they can trace their descent from known ancestors: bilineal descent. Married couples live away from their parents(neolocal residence. A traditional american household generally beings with a husband and wife pair moving from the households of their parents. The arrangement is formalized with the birth of children, which produces a new nuclear family. At some point the household might be composed of three generations as married children join the household with their own children: unilineal descent. Found in southeast asia, the south pacific, and in some parts of.
