ANT100Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Incest Taboo, Kinship, Universal Rule
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Kinship-based corporate groups: main interconnected principles or concepts, namely, marriage, residence, descent, marriage may be though as the horizontal principle, descent could be vertical. Marriage: a cultural institution joining two or more persons into a socially recognized, long-term relationship for personal, sexual, childbearing, political, and/or economic purposes, this is the horizonal nature of marriage. Incest taboo, the near universal rule against marrying or having sex with kin . There are really only two choices: more or more than one. The kinds of corporate residential groups formed by residence practices will significantly shape society. 4: lineage, a kinship-based corporate group composed of members related by descent from a known ancestor, matrilineal descent, a descent system in which lineages relation are traced through a line of related females. Kinship terminologies: hawaiian, only four main terms - two for parents generation and two for one"s own generation, omaha, parallel cousins are called by the same name as brothers and sister.
