Chapter 9: Marriage And Family

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Household

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A group of people occupying a common dwelling.

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Family

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A marriage couple or other group of adult kinfolk who cooperate economically and in the upbringing of children, and all or most of whom share a common dwelling.

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Marriage

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A socially recognized, stable, and enduring union between two adults who publicly acknowledge right and obligations and form a new alliance of kin between groups.

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Social fatherhood

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The status of a man who fulfills the responsibilities of parenting, a role that may or may not be the same as biological paternity.

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Nuclear family

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Family consisting of parents and their children.

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Single parent family

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Family consisting of one parent(ether and mother or father) and their children.

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Extended family

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Family formed with three or more generations, i.e. Parents, children and grandparents.

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Joint family

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Family consisting of siblings with their spouses and children, sharing work and resources.

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Incest taboo

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A ban on sexual relations or marriage parents and their children or between siblings.

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Class

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Social grouping usually determined on the basis Ida combination of birth and achievement.

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Caste

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Social grouping whose membership is determined at birth and is generally inflexible.

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Monogamy

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Marriage rule that stipulates a union between two people.

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Polygamy

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Marriage in which the marital unit consists of three or more people.

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Serial monogamy

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Marriage pattern that is stipulates that a person can be married to only one personal a time, although individuals may have two or more spouses during there lifetime. Subsequent marriages may be formed after the death of one spouse or after divorce.

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Polygyny

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Marriage between a man and two or more woman.

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Polyandry

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Marriage between a woman and two or more men.

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Sororal polygyny

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Marriage between a man and two or more woman who are sisters.

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Ghost marriage

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Marriage practice among Nuer and Sudan in which a widow marries her dead husbands brother and which the children ensuring from the second marriage are assumed to be the first , dead husband.

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Same sex marriage

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Marriage between two men or woman.

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Bridewealth

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Presents given by the husbands family to the wife skin before, during, or after the wedding ceremony.

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BrideService

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A period of months or years before or after a marriage during which the husband performs labor for his wife's parents.

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Groomservice

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Obligation for a future bride to preform service for her future husband and his family.

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Groomwealth

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Gifts such as clothing, ornaments, and household supplies given by the parents and relatives of the bride to the parents and relatives of the groom.

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Dowry

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Gifts given by the wife's family to the marriage couple or to the husbands kin before, during, or after the wedding ceremony.

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Arranged marriages

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Marriages that are arranged by the parents or the relatives of the bride and groom.

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Courtship

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Period prior to marriage when a couple tests the attraction to and compatibility with each other.

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Residence rules

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Rules that stipulate where's couple will reside after there marriage.

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Matrilocal residence

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Pattern for residence in which after marriage a couple lives near the wives family.

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Uxorilocal

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Living with or near the wives parents.

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Patrilocal residence

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Pattern of residence after marriage in which the couple lives near the husbands parents.

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Virilocal

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Living with it near the husbands parents.

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Avunculocal residence

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Pattern of residence after marriage in which the couple lives with or near the mother brother.

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Bilocal residence

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Patterns of residence after marriage in which the couple alternated between living with the husbands and wives parents.

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Neolocal residence

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Pattern of residence in which the couple after marriage establishes a new independent household away from relatives.

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Internal warfare

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Warfare between closely situated villages or communities.

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External warfare

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Warfare that takes place at some distance from from home communities requiring warriors absence from their homes for extended periods of time.

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Levitate

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Marriage preference rule in which a widow married her descend husbands brother.

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Sororate

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Marriage between a widower and his deceased wife's sister.