ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Land Tenure, Incest Taboo, Corporate Group
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Lineage is a group, because there is a common identity. It serves as a group, maybe even a clan. It is a group that collectively controls and holds resources. Lineages and clans can serve as corporate groups. Trobrianders have land, they have a lineage; therefore, their lineage has land. Children descended are given privileges to that family. Levi-strauss: when you get married you get a whole new category of relatives. Incest taboo: incest is a prohibition on sex. Since we can"t have sex with them, we can"t marry them. Incest taboo divided the social world into two: marriageable people and unmarriageable people. The practice of being married to only one spouse. The practice of being married to more than one spouse at a time. Polygyny the practice of being married to more than one wife at a time. Polyandry the practice of being married to more than one husband at a time.
