Kinship Flashcards
Why, did conkilin observe, do the Yanomami eat their dead in-law relations? Why don’t they eat blood relations? (2)
It initiates them into the family through literal consumption.
Blood relations are still in grieving.
What do the Nuer consider the main value of women to be? (1) What happens if they don’t perform? (2) Which anthropologists researched this? (1)
Bearing children
They can be divorced if they don’t and are not considered complete until they do so
Gardner and Harris
How is cattle distributed in the Nuer? (1 + 1 bonus)
Patrilineally - from father to son
However it’s given to the father of a potential bride of bride wealth
What did Gardner and Harris claim is a woman’s role in Nuer society? (1 + 1 bonus)
To make the beer
Men drink it in social age groups
Who traditionally looks after the children in Masai culture? (1)
Anyone
Who researched the Masai? (1)
Archambault
What type of society is the Nuer culture? (1)
Patrilineal
Why, as Chagnon discovered, do the Yanomami marry their cross cousins? (3)
To unite families together by giving their daughters, their family name.
For example if a boy (smith) married his fathers sisters daughter (Jones) - as her mother married into that name - jones’s name would become smith meaning she would no longer be an outsider but on of their family again.
Or if smith married his mothers brothers daughter (Jones), she would become a smith again.
