ANTH 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Widow Inheritance, Patrilineality, Capital Accumulation

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One of the most important areas of social science is the study of the family as the basic social unit for reproduction, residence and economic life in nearly all societies. But family structures and family relationships (kinship) do have different forms in different parts of the world. In this lecture i will discuss some of the main patterns. There are a few unusual cases in which brothers and sisters did mate with each, notably egypt under greek and. However, in addition to these biological factors, there are also problems related to property and how to pass it down between the generations. There are three basic variations: (i) most of the property is controlled by men and is passed down from father to son: women marry men in other groups and so do not inherit property from their fathers. patrilineal systems in which closely related men (fathers, sons, brothers) live together with their wives and children.

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