ANTH 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Exogamy, Endogamy, Dowry
6 Feb 2017
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Relatedness: the socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of ways. Family: at minimum, a woman or a man and his/her dependant children. Kinship: social relationships that are prototypically derived from the universal human experiences of mating, birth and nurturance. Friendship: the relatively unof cial bonds that people construct with one another that tend to be personal, affective and a matter of choice . Bride wealth : the transfer of certain symbolically important goods from the family of the groom to the family of the bride, representing compensation to the wife"s lineage for the loss of her labour and for child bearing capacities. Polygamy: a marriage pattern in which a person may be married to more than one person at a time. Monogamy: a marriage pattern in which a person may be married to only one person at a time.
