ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Trobriand Islands, Enculturation, Polyamory
29 Oct 2012
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Family and kinship has key concerns of anthropological study. Kinship as an organizing feature of society. In western society, separation, divorce and assisted reproductive technologies foster a whole new array of kind connections which are negotiable. Timeless and cross-cultural, through its forms and iterations vary. Various patterns of marriage are institutionalized in societies"" moral and legal codes. Functions of the family: reproduction and socialization, social regulation of sexual competition, economic, status, formation of intergroup alliances and exchanges. Kinship systems: identify who is family and who is not, and give guideline for behaviours, beliefs, property ownership, identity, and the myriad of other facets of interpersonal and interfamilial dynamics. Exogamy the custom of marrying outside a community, clan, or tribe. Endogamy the custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe. Matrilineality matrilineality is a system in which lineage is traced through the mother and maternal ancestors.
