ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Incest, Cultural Universal, Female Genital Mutilation
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Lineage: a unilineal descent (using only one line) group based on demonstrated descent (ascribed) Ambilineal descent: people choose the descent group to which they belong. People can change their membership or belong to two or more groups at the same time. Two basic units of social organization for foragers: nuclear family and band. Nuclear families tend to be more stable than bands. Many societies formed bands only part of the year. Four parental terms: (m, f, fb-mb, and mz-fz) Gender and cultivators: gender roles and stratification vary widely. Descent group: social unity and solidarity are based on a belief in common ancestry. Bifurcate merging kinship: split mother"s side from father"s side, but also merges same-sex siblings of each parent. Women controlled local economy, owned the land. Generational kinship: same term for parents and their siblings, more complete lumping. Belief systems started contrasting value between men"s extra domestic/women"s domestic roles. Women isolated from cowives and kin in nuclear families.
