ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Human Relations Area Files, Polyandry, Edmund Leach
31
ANT102H5 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
31 documents
Document Summary
Kinship terms, symbols & diagrams: family, incest prohibition, marriage, descent, descent groups. Kin classification: consanguineal vs. affinal kin, blood relatives vs. relatives through marriage, lineal vs. Collateral kin direct vs. parallel lines of descent. Murdoch social structure (1949) 1st major cross cultural comparison / basis of hraf (human relations area files) 1. Diminishes sexual competition: protects child bearing females, provides the primary context of enculturation, defines division of labour by sex. The nuclear family: family of orientation = natal family, family of procreation = conjugal family. New family forms supplant the extended family in industrial society: nuclear family, single parent family, blended family. Incest prohibition and exogamy: genetic theory, degeneration theory, aversion theory [eduard westermarck, family harmony theory [freud; malinowski, social cooperation theory [e. b. tylor] Marriage rules: exogamy, endogamy, prescriptive rules, preferential rules. Forms of marriage: monogamy, strict vs. serial (serial=can be married to one person at a time but as many times as you want.
