Important Terms 6 Flashcards
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Avunculocal
Married individuals live with or near an uncle
Bilateral descent
Descent is recognized through both the father and the mother side of the family
Bridewealth
Payments made to the brides family by the grooms family
Clan
A group of people who have a general notion of common descent that is not attached to a specific biological ancestor
Descent groups
Relationships that provide members with a sense of identity and social support based on ties of shared ancestry
Domestic group
A term that can be used to describe a group of people who live together even if members do not consider themselves to be a family
Dowery
Payments made to the grooms family by the brides family
Endogamy
A term describing expectations that individuals must marry within a particular group
Exogamy
A term describing expectations that individuals must marry outside a particular group
Family of procreation
The new household formed for the purpose of conceiving and raising children
Joint family
A large extended family that includes multiple generations
Kinship
A term used to describe culturally recognize to ties, statuses used, and expected behaviours of family members with certain statuses
Kinship diagrams
Charts used by anthropologists two visually represent relationships between members of a kinship group
Kinship system
A pattern of culturally recognize relationships between family members
Kinship terminology
The terms used in a language to describe relatives
Levirate
The practice of a woman marrying one of her deceased husband‘s brothers
Lineage
A term used to describe any form of descent from a common ancestor
Matriarchal
A society in which women have authority to make decisions
Matrilineal descent
A kinship group created through the maternal line
Matrilocal residence
Married individuals live with or near the wife’s mother‘s family
Neolocal residence
Newly married individuals establish our households separate from their other family members
Nuclear family
parents who are in a culturally recognize relationship such as marriage along with some minor or dependent child
Patrilineal cousin marriage
The practice of marrying a male or female cousin on the fathers side
Patrilineal descent
Kinship group created through the paternal side
