ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Unilineality, Iroquois Kinship, Fictive Kinship
28 Dec 2013
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All cultures have a form of family or household organization to deal with problems human groups face: facilitation of economic cooperation between the sexes, providing a proper setting for childrearing, regulation of sexual activity. Many cultures face problems beyond the coping ability of family and household organization: one sovereign group needs support and protection from another. Land ownership vested in a corporate group: people need a means of providing cooperative work forces for tasks. Solutions: develop a formal political system, personnel to make/enforce laws, keep peace, allocate, resources, in nonindustrial societies (horticultural and pastoral), develop kinship groups. Kinship: the people we are related to through blood (consanguineal) and marriage (affinal) Three groups of kin: nominal kin: little or no contact, but aware of existence, effective kin: meet fairly regularly, at family functions, intimate kin: continuing, close relationships, extended family (affinal and consanguineal) Size of kin group determined by personal choice, proximity, gender, and class factors.
