ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Raymond Williams, Exogamy, Endogamy
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Inheritance more about property (what happens to their stuff when someone passes away?) Family is the unit of production and consumption. When you marry, where do you set-up your new household. Defined in terms of property, offspring, political relations. Always seems to be a positive term. Groups of rural producers within complex societies. Social organizations of towns and villages in latin america. Economy, politics, kinship, religion all seen to strengthen. You have obligation to contribute to community"s projects and if you don"t, you"re considered an outcast. They are our enemies; we marry them . Peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather the organization of conflict. Historical context of this idea cold war. No one has much power over others. Access for all to material resources (kinship) Species originate in a single gene pool, not distinct races. A race is a cluster of local populations that differs genetically from others.
