ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Incest Taboo, Monogamy, Social Status
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Levi-strauss affines - relatives through marriage incest taboo - can"t marry people in your family so you marry an. Enemy = alliance: securing rights of spouses in each other. B. 3. polygyny: having multiple wives polyandry: multiple husbands demographic implication: in a society w equal number of men and women, some people won"t have a spouse: polyandry and material conditions +himalayas - material conditions. C. 1. c) agriculturists limited land suitable for agriculture land tenure - inheritance of land fraternal polyandry and corporate property. C. 3. b) no, different ways to solve problems europe - primogeniture: eldest son inherits everything. Iii. who can marry whom: exogamy: marrying outside one"s own group. A. 1. exogamy =/= incest: endogamy: marrying inside one"s social group. B. 3. ex class endogamy, marrying within your social class maintaining status hierarchies. B. 2. a) ex caste system in hindu india maintaining ethnic identity. Iv. post-marital residence: virilocal residence (patrilocal): couple lives with husband"s people, matrilocal, neolocal: couple sets up home somewhere new.
