ANT 111 Study Guide - Final Guide: Trobriand Islands, Vocational School, Masculinity

• School: Wake Forest University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 111
• Professor: Clark

Document Summary

Kinship- the complex system of culturally defined social relationships based on marriage and birth. Consanguinity refers to kinship relationships based on birth. Affinity refers to kinship relationships based on marriage. Descent- a kinship rule that ties people together on the basis of reputed common ancestry. Patrilineal descent is a descent rule linking consanguine relatives through males only. Matrilineal descent is a descent rule linking relatives together through females only. Apache and iroquois indians, the nayar of south india, and the na of china observe matrilineal descent. Many other ethnic groups around the world do as well. Bilateral descent is a descent rule linking relatives together through both males and females simultaneously. Example: a majority of americans observe bilateral descent. Descent groups: groups based on a descent rule. Lineage is a localized group that is based on a unilineal (patrilineal or matrilineal) descent rule and which usually has some corporate power.