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62 Cards in this Set
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Omaha System
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Patrilineal equivalent of the Crown; the line of mother's patrilineal kin is equated across generations
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Fission?
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The splitting of descent groups into two or more descent groups.
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Ambilocal residence?
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A couple may choose whether to live with the matri or patrilocal residence.
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Mobility?
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The ability to change one's class position
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Moiety?
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Each group that results from a division of a society into two halves on the basis of descent.
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Group marriage?
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a marriage where many men and many women have sexual access to each other.
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Neolocal residence
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A pattern in which a married couple may establish their household in a location apart of either their patri or matri relatives.
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Family?
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a residential kin group based on a woman, her dependent children and at least one male joined through blood relationship.
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Age grade?
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Organized category based on age, every individual in this set pass through things together as a group.
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Affinal Kin?
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Relatives by marriage
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Incest Taboo
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The prohibition of sexual relations between specified individuals, usually parent/child and siblings at a minimum
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Natolocal?
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as per the Nayar: everyone stays "home"
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Ambilineal Descent?
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Descent through wich the individual may associte with either the mother or the father.
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Age Sets?
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Groups of persons initiated into an age grade at a specific time, and who move through a series of categories together (ie "Warriors" and "Elders"
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exogamy?
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MArriage outside group.
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Lineal (eskimo) system
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Emphasizes nuclear family by specifically identifying mother, brother, father, sister, while lumping together everyone else into broad categories such as "aunt" or "uncle"
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stratified society?
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division of society into two or more categories of people who do not share equally in the basic resources that support life, influence and prestige
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Open class societies
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Stratified societies that permit a great deal of social mobility
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Marriage?
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a transaction and resulting contract in which a man and a woman are recognized by a society as having a claim to the right of sexual access to one another and in which the woman is eligible to bear children.
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Avunculocal?
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A married couple resides with the husbands - mothers - brothers residence (Trobrianders).
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Patrilineal descent
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Descent is traced exclusively through the male line for purposes of group membership
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Bride Service?
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A designated period of time after marriage where the groom works for the brides parents.
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Patrilateral Parallel Cousin Marriage
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Marriage of a man to his father's brother's daughter, or a woman to her father's brother's son. [i.e. to a parallel cousin on the paternal side].
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Matrilocal residence?
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a married couple lives in the locality associated with the wife's relatives
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Egalitarian societies.
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A society where there are as many imprtant positons exist as there are people.
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Forms of the family?
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nucular
extended polygynous? polyandrus? |
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Extended family.
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a collection of nuclear families, related by ties of blood, that live in one house.
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Endogamy?
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Marriage within a group,
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Phantry?
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unilineal descent group composed of two more clans that claim to be of common ancestry. IF THERE ARE ONLY TWO SUCH GROUPS, EACH IS A MOIETY.
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Patrilocal residence
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A residence pattern in which a married couple lies in the locality associated with the husband's father's relatives
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Bride Price?
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Compensation paid ny the goom or the grooms parents to the family of the bride,
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Serial Monogamy
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a marriage form in which a man or woman marries a series of partners in succession
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Social class
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a set of families that enjoy equal or nearly equal prestige according to the system of evaluation
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Descent group?
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Any publically recognized social entity such that being a lineal descendent of a particular real or mythological descendent is a criterion for member
Descent Groups organize a society along kinship lines Lineage [a CORPORATE BODY] Clan: [know Totemism] Phratries and Moieties Bilateral Descent [Kindred] |
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Common-interest associations?
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Associations not linked by age, kinship, marriage territory, that result in the act of joining.
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Matrilineal descent?
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Descent is traced exclusively through the female line for purposes of group membership
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Caste?
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A Special form of social class where membership is determained at birth, and remains fixed for life.
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Clan?
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A non corporate descent group with each member claiming a descent from a sommon anscestor without knowing the exact links to that ancestor.
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symobolic indicators
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in a stratified society, activities and possessions that are indicative of social class.
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Kindred?
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a group of consanguineal kin linked by heir relationship to one living individual; includes both maternal and paternal kin.
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totemism
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the belief that people are related to particular animals, plants or natural objects by virtue of descent from common ancestral spirits.
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unilineal descent?
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descent that established group membership either through the male or female line.
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Verbal evaluation:
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the way in which people in a stratified society evaluate members of their own society.
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Monogamy?
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marriage in which an individual has a single spouse.
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Levirate?
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A marriage custom according to which a widow marries a brother of her dead husband
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RESIDENCE PATTERNS
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Patralocal
matrilocal ambiloca neolocal avnunculocal |
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What are three marriage exchanges?
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dowry - brides parents pay grooms family
bride service - groom works bridewaelth - groom or family compenaste brides family. |
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functions of the family>?
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Nurturance of Children
Economic Cooperation |
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HOusehold.
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basic residential unit in which economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing and shelter are organized and carried out; may or may not be synonymous with family.
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Lineage?
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a corporate descent group whose members trace their genealogical links to a common ancestor.
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MAtrilnial cross cousin marriage?
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marriage of a woman to her father's sister's son, or a man to his Mother's brother's daughter. [his cross cousin on the maternal side, her cross cousin on the paternal side].
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Crowe System?
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Usually associated with matrilineal descent. Fathers sister, and fathers sisters daughters are called by the same term. Mother and mothers sisters are merged under a term. Parallel cousins are merged with brothers and sisters
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COnjugal Family?
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A family consisting of one (or more) men married to one (or more) women, and their children.
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COnjugal bond.
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The bond between a man and a woman who are married.
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Iroquois System
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One's father and father's brother are referred to by a single term, one's mother and mother's sister are referred to by a single term; one's father's sister and one's mother's brother are given separate terms; parallel cousins are classified with brothers and sisters; cross cousins are classified separately, but [unlike Crow and Omaha] not equated with relatives of another generation.
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Dowry?
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payment of a womans inheritence at the time of her marriage to her or her husband.
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Double descent.
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descent is traced matrilinealy for some purposes, patrilinealy for others.
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Consanguineal kin
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Relatives by birth; blood relatives.
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Hawiian system?
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Kinship reckoning where all kin of the same sex and generation are called the same term.
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Consnguine Family?
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a Family consisting of related women, their brothers and the offspring of the women.
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Descriptive (sudanese) system.
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one's fathers, father's brother, and mother's brothers are one term. Mother, mother's sister, and father's sister are one term. Cross cousins are distinguished from each other and from siblings.
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nuclear family?
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family unit consisting of husband, wife, and dependent children
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