ANTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Virginity, Bride Price, Unilineality
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Tv shows, related to family, to understand themselves . Kinship relates to social organization in small-scale and large-scale societies. Different levels of social, cultural, and technological complexity. Ju/"hoanis = gatherers/hunters living in small mobile groups. Trobrian islanders = horticulturists living in villages (up to 400 people); expert in the science of cultivating plants. Rural chinese = large agricultural society (farming) Ethnographic present: use of the present tense to describe a culture, although the description may refer to situations that existed in the past. Nuclear family: father, mother, and biological or adopted children. Incest taboo: a rule that prohibits sexual relations among certain categories of kin, such as brothers or sisters, parents and children, or in some cases, cousins. Groups of 10-30 or 40 people (bilaterally related) Key relationship is between husband and wife: brideservice: requirement that when a couple marries, the groom must work for the bride"s parents for some specified period of time (as long as.
