ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Consanguinity, Matrilocal Residence, Patrilineality

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Holly Peters- Golden

Document Summary

Kinship systems reflect the closeness and significance of rights and obligations between people and groups. Shared substance (might be blood, food, genes, etc) Kin groups are often responsible for the actions of members. Transmission of property (heritance normally takes place within the kin group) In matrilineal systems: descent is traced through women only. In patrilineal systems: descent is traced through men only. Matrilineal societies are matrilocal: residence after marriage with wife"s kin group. Patrilineal societies are patrilocal: residence after marriage with husband"s kin group. When drawing a genelogy chart, it is similar to a family chart (circles and triangles) Ordered from oldest (on the left) to youngest (to the right) but not based on sex. If someone dies, you draw a line through them. If there was a divorce, you draw a line through the equal sign which means marriage. A family of orientation is the family you grew up in.