ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Exogamy, Patrilineality, Takers
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Polygyny a system where men have several wives. Polyandry a system where women have several husbands (less common) Traditional marriage: love is not an important or desired aspect, arranged by kin, a relationship between two groups rather than between people. Bride brings gifts from her family into the marriage: seen as compensation for the men"s family supporting the family financially, described as an "indo-european institution, traditional in asian societies. When the wife dies the man marries her sister: the wife"s kin have an obligation to replace the wife when she dies. The groom moves in with the bride"s family: the woman"s" brothers and other male relatives tend to determine her matrimonial destiny. People can marry anyone of the right gender who is not a sibling (anyone of the same gender, generation, and clan) You can marry father"s brothers kid"s and mother"s sister"s kids: a man marries where his father marries, yanomami.
