ANTH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Langkawi, Cultural Anthropology, Exogamy
6 Jan 2018
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Kinship is a cultural system that de nes familial relationships and obligations: our father, donor 150: 2 women who were conceived by sperm from an anonymous donor. How are we related to one another: bases of kinship: cultures make many decisions about to whom we are related. Marriages to result in the construction of a new set of relatives, including any children that might result: judging who you are related to involves more than simple biology: Legal adoptive: descent, the nuer of southern sudan: evans-pritchard"s study of the neur found that they have. Patrilineal and clan kinship system; each village was identi ed with a single patrilineal clan with a single or multiple lineage: searching for kinship patterns: variety and exibility in kinship systems is more common, marriage and other af nal ties. American culture favors kindred exogamy (that is, we have a broad de nition of incest) and ethnic group endogamy. )
