AN101 Chapter : Week 7 Notes.docx
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Conformity and culture: nancy scheper-hughes: mother"s love: death without weeping. Family: from the 14th century latin, designating the members (or servants) of a household has long been regarded as a core social institution. Anthropological interest in family: family values: a euphemism for two-parent, opposite sex, legal marriages in which women stays home to raise children. But increasing prevalence of blended, single parent, common law, and same-sex families is challenge the concept of typical or traditional family. The family defined: family: a married or common law couple with or without children or a lone parent with dependent children. May sometimes include non-kin members: definition of family is always changing; family in north america may not be family in nayar . India: a different definition of family: kinship group providing the nurturing socialization of their children (natural or adopted, culture bound: interpretation of other practices and beliefs from the standpoint of one"s practice.