ANTH 260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Kinship, Genealogy, Consanguinity
4 Apr 2017
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Kinship - the system of meaning and power that cultures create to determine who is related to whom and to define their mutual expectations, rights, and responsibilities. Provides support and nurture, ensure reproduction of the next generation, protect group assets, and influence social, economic, and political systems. Nuclear family the kinship unit of mother, father, and children. Humans construct kinship groups is by tracking genealogical descent. Descent groups, primary relationships are with consanguineal relatives (blood relatives) Descent groups- a kinship group in which primary relationships are traced through consanguine relatives. Mid-twentieth century: descent groups to be central to the social structure of most nonindustrial cultures outside europe and north america. Two types of descent groups: lineages. A type of descent group that traces genealogical connection through generations by linking persons to a founding ancestor: clans. Affinal relationships- a kinship relationship established through marriage and/or alliance, not through biology or common descent: in-laws .
