ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Fictive Kinship, Ambilineality, Kinship

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Victor Gulewitsch

Document Summary

Kinship is the people e are related to through blood (consanguineal) and marriage (affinal) Why we study kinship: virtually everyone has kin whether biological or adopted. Defines our gender roles how many children we will bear what will happen to us when we grow old and what faith we practice. Kinship is culturally diverse and it is dynamic. Urban kinship systems in canada: fictive kinship is friends not biologically related but considered part of a kin group. In canada kinship is voluntarily selective with no strong obligations. Decent groups: any publicly recognized social entity requiring lineal descent from a particular real or mythical ancestor for membership, unilineal descent. Descent that establishes a group membership exclusively through either mother or fathers line. Mat(cid:396)ili(cid:374)eal des(cid:272)e(cid:374)t is t(cid:396)a(cid:272)ed th(cid:396)ough (cid:373)othe(cid:396)(cid:859)s g(cid:396)a(cid:374)d(cid:373)othe(cid:396) to esta(cid:271)lish g(cid:396)oup membership. des(cid:272)e(cid:374)de(cid:374)t does(cid:374)(cid:859)t automatically confer authority. This lineage is to provide continuous female solidarity within the female labour pool.