ANTH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Dowry, Kinship, Consanguinity

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 100
• Professor: Hugode Burgo

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Relatedness: the socially recognized ties that connect people in varies ways. Allows us to describe all forms of marriages. 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 labor and for child bearing capacities. Sororate: when a widower marries a sister of his deceased wife. Monogamy: a marriage where a person can only be married to one person at a time. Polygamy: a marriage where a person can be married to more than one person at a time. Some cultures may transfer specific important goods at marriage (bride wealth and dowry) Dowry: transfer of wealth from parents to their child and the child"s marriage. A way of compensating the brides relatives for the loss of her labor and child bearing capacities. How they are treated by their in laws depends on the size of their dowry.