ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Nuclear Family, Bilateral Descent, Ambilineality

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

Document Summary

Descent groups: membership in a group by lineal descent from a real or mythical ancestors, restricted by, locality, choice, make sex jurally relevant. Unilineal descent: dominance of men over women, trace kin through one side, fathers or mothers, patrilineal decent and organized, matrilineal -> through females, patrilineal -> through males. Double descent: system tracing descent matrilineally for some purposes and matrilineally for others, patrilineal -> land ownership, matrilineal -> animal ownership, women take great deal in farming. Ambilineal descent: system in which an individual may af liate with the mother"s or father"s descent group, provides exibility. Forms and functions in descent groups: provide warmth and sense of security, provide security and services in work, provide mutual aid to members, support the elderly and the in rm, help with marriages and deaths, repository of religious traditions. Lineage: corporate descent group whose members trace their genealogical links to a common ancestor, real life of people tracing to a know common ancestor.