ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture 14: Lecture 14

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Brent Pav

Document Summary

Overview: families, descent, marriage, marital rights and same-sex marriage, marriage across cultures, divorce, plural marriages. Families: the wide web of kinship is essential part of anthropology because of its importance to the people we study. Family: group of people considered to be related in some way. Nuclear family: parents and children may or may not be residentially based: nuclear and extended families. Family of orientation: family in which one is born and grows up. Family of procreation: formed when one marries and has children. Nuclear family organization is widespread but not universal: in some societies, other social units assume functions of nuclear family. Zadrugas: large extended families among the muslims of western bosnia: patrilocal extended family because couples reside in husband"s father"s household after marriage. Tarawads: extended-family compounds among the nayars of southern india: matrilineal extended family compounds, industrialism and family organization. Nuclear family only well-defined kin group for many north americans.