ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Fraternities And Sororities, Enculturation, Exogamy
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No, and how do you define extended . Some cultures more extended family are more important and others don"t matter, what about in-laws: any group of people deemed to have closer ties to each other than to other remembers of society. People who are a family friend but have no blood relation but you call them uncle or aunt . Showing that you are a part of the same group. A source of identity although it is fictive, doesn"t mean that it is any less impoirtant. Fam and kin defeined: we privilege biological relatedness in the us. Bus our system is not universal: forms of address (terms of reference and terms of address) help one see those considered part of a family or kin group from outsiders. Greek system names (sisters, housemother) help emulate this system. Names indicate how they are supposed to act: common way of defining kinship.
