ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Exogamy, Endogamy, Nuclear Family
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Carries implicaions about permited sexual access the partners may have to each other. Perpetuates social paterns through the birth or adopion of ofspring. Marriage creates new relaionships between the kin of both spouses: consanguineal relaionships are based on descent, ainal relaionships are created through marriage or ainity. Endogamy is marriage within a deined social group. Exogamy is marriage outside a deined social group. Marriage in many socieies involves the transfer of symbolically imported goods. Bridewealth is the transfer of goods from the family of the groom to family of the bride at marriage. Dowry is the transfer of wealth usually from parents to their daughter at the ime of her marriage. They treat the women like hookers being forced on their men. Take my daughter and whatever else i want to give you idk, if it"s not enough money along with her, i don"t want her . There are four major types of residence paterns:
