Z Anthro 102 Unit 2

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Bridewealth

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Aka Bride Price. A customary gift given from the husband and his kin to the wife and her kin.

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Bride service

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Involves the husband residing with and working for his wife’s parents group for a specified amount of time.

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Dowry

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The goods a bride brings to her husband.

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clan

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a descent group that reckons descent through a common ancestor and has a sense of collective identity but is unable to genealogically reconstruct the exact connections.

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moiety

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from the French for "half", a society organized into two large descent groups, each with it's own specific functions.

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Totem

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a symbol (usually an animal, plant or special inanimate object) used by a clan which holds special significance.

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Caste

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a status based on birth. One belongs to one's parent's caste, and can't usually move out of it.

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Phratry

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a banding together of several clans with an extension of kinship rights to one another while retaining distinct identities.

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Incest

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sexual relations with a close relative (defined by the culture). All countries have taboos against incest.

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Endogamy

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marriage within one's kin group

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Exogamy

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marriage outside of one's kin group

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Sodality

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1. fellowship; comradeship.
2. an association or society.

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Ascribed status

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an inherited position in the social structure

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Achieved status

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position in a social structure dependent upon personal qualifications and individual ability

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Nuclear family

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a family consisting of husband, wife, and their unmarried children

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Extended family

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consits of the nuclear family and other family members bound together as a social unit

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Polygyny

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the marriage of one husband to more than one wife

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Polyandry

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the marriage of one wife to more than one husband

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Monogamy

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generally the marriage of 1 male spouse to 1 female spouse

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Levirate

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If the husband dies, the widow generally marries one of his brothers.

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Sororate

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if the wife dies, the husband's group asks the wife's group for a substitute (often a sister)

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Neolocal residence patterns

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newlyweds establish their won household separate from that of their families. This is a rare pattern.

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Patrilocal residence patterns

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aka Virilocal
newlyweds move in with, or near to, the husband's kin

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Matrilocal residence patterns

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aka Uxorilocal
newlyweds move in with, or near to, the wife's kin

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Fictive kinship

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are people neither consanguineally nor affinally related that are brought into one's family circle through the use of arbitrary kinship terms, such as a good frind called "Uncle".

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Patrilineal

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a group of people that trace descent down fater's side

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Matrilineal

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a group of people that trace descent down mother's side

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Consanguineal (kin)

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family embers related by birth (blood)

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Affinal (kin)

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are people related by marriage (one's spouse and his/her cosanguineal kin

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Cross cousins

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are the children of opposite-sexed siblings