ANTH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Single Parent, Nuclear Family, Kinship
4 Nov 2016
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Coexisting economic systems: adaptive strategies, modes of production, exchange principles. Economic systems reflect social structure: few direct social connections. Kinship, family, descent, and marriage are the basic building blocks of all societies. Kinship systems: culturally defined human relationships of interdependence underlying all social organization. Family: group of two or more people related by birth, marriage, or adoption and cohabitates: different from popular usage. All kinship systems begin with some cultural understanding of what a family is. Universal functions of family: nurturing and enculturating children, economic cooperation. Different types of families: single parent families, nuclear families, extended families. Impermanent kinship structure: family of orientation- born into, family of procreation- married into. All types of families: are of procreation and orientation. The nuclear family is not a universal human trait: u. s. family ideal is nuclear , nayar ideal is mother centered extended . Tarawad households: brazilian ideal is father focused extended , disconnects between cultural ideals and cultural practice .
