Anthrop - Chap 5 - 7 Flashcards

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consanguineal

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blood relationship

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marriage (part of family)

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close friend; adopted

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yourself; shade in symbol

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gift of money or goods from the groom or his kin to the bride's kin; the gift usually grants the groom the right to marry the bride & the right to her children

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requires the groom to work for the bride's family, sometimes before the marriage begins, sometimes after; varies in duration

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usually a substantial transfer of goods or $ from the bride's family to the bride, the groom, or the couple; family must have wealth to give a this; tend to be in societies in which women contribute relatively little to primary subsistence activities, there is a high degree of social stratification & monogamy is practiced

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prohibits sexual intercourse or marriage between some categories of kin; found in all cultures; between mom & son, dad & daughter, brother & sister

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involving one man married to one woman

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one man married to more than one woman at the same time

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one woman being married to more than one man at the same time

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polygyny & polyandry are two types; multiple marriage

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man married to two or more sisters

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woman is married to more than one brother

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marriage partners must be chosen from outside one's own kin group or community; rule

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a married couple & their children

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a rule that obliges a person to marry within same group

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consists of a married couple and one or more of the married children, all living in the same house or household

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social & economic unit consisting minimally of one or more parents (or parent substitute) & their children

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socially approved sexual & economic union, usually between a woman & a man

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immediate families or go-betweens handle the negotiations; implicit that conviction that the joining together of two kin groups to form new social & economic ties is too important to be left to free choice and romantic love

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the practice of having a number of long-term romantic or sexual partners in succession

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marriage where a deceased groom is replaced by his brother. The brother serves as a stand in to the bride, and any resulting children are considered children of the deceased spouse; family of deceased does it bc if there were no children--spiritual belief that bad luck happens

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a family that includes children from a previous marriage of the wife, husband, or both parents.

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people who don't feel that their assigned gender fits them well

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The sense of being male or female

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Typically refers to sexual anatomy & sexual behavior

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third gender recognized by Cheyennes; often recognized after a boy finished his vision quest, usually preadolescent; boy would wear woman's clothes & take on many of the woman's activities; but not equivalent to becoming a woman bc two-spirits played special roles at weddings & child birth

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genders that are neither man nor woman have been described for many societies; i.e. two-spirit

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stereotypes about the genders

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refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender

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cuts across all aspects of social life, cuts across all social classes, and refers to men and women's unequal access to power, prestige, and property on the basis of their sex.

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rules that connect individuals with particular sets of kin because of known or presumed common ancestry

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clans are designated by an animal name; may have some special significance for the group and is a means of group identification; a being, object, or symbol representing an animal or plant that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, group, lineage, ...

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the system of social relationships connecting people in a culture who are or are held to be related and defining and regulating their reciprocal obligations

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A system of linguistic categories for denoting kinds of relatives

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A mode of kinship classification usually but not always associated with patrilineal descent in which a line of mother's patrilineal kin are terminologically equated across generations (mirror image of Crow terminology).

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A mode of kinship reckoning, usually but not always associated with unilineal descent, in which cross and parallel relatives are distinguished according to relative sex of connecting relatives in the middle three generations only

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A mode of kinship reckoning, usually associated with bilateral kinship or cognatic descent, in which relatives are distinguished only according to sex and generation.

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a mode of kinship classification usually but not always associated with matrilineal descent in which a line of father's matrilineal kin are terminologically equated across generations (mirror image of Omaha terminology)

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marked by a bilateral emphasis - no distinction is made between patrilineal and matrilineal relatives - and by a recognition of differences in kinship distance - close relatives are distinguished from more distant ones

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completely descriptive and assigns a different kin term to each distinct relative, as indicated by separate letters and colours in the diagram above. Ego distinguishes between his father (A), his father's brother (E), and his mother's brother (H). There are potentially eight different cousin terms.