ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bilateral Descent, Human Reproduction, Unilineality
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Examine the many ways humans relate to each other. Explore social rules and paterns that aid the understanding of relatedness. Discuss the great variety in social rules and paterns across the world. Humans depend on each other for survival. Relatedness refers to the socially recognized ies that connect people to one another, including: kinship, adopion, marriage, residence, family, sexuality. Forms of relatedness are always embedded in, and shaped by, poliics economics, and worldviews. People organize their interdependence by means of various forms of relatedness. Kinship, refers to forms of relatedness believed to come from shared substance and its transmission: substance may be believed to be. Kinship systems focus on ideas about shared substance and its transmission, oten thought to take place in the process of sexual reproducion. Kinship systems help socieies maintain social order without central government. Cross cultural comparison shows that kinship is not a direct relecion of biology.