Anthro Final 2

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Omaha System: Patrilineal equivalent of the Crown; the line of mother's patrilineal kin is equated across generations
Fission?: The splitting of descent groups into two or more descent groups.
Ambilocal residence?: A couple may choose whether to live with the matri or patrilocal residence.
Mobility?: The ability to change one's class position
Moiety?: Each group that results from a division of a society into two halves on the basis of descent.
Group marriage?: a marriage where many men and many women have sexual access to each other.
Neolocal residence: A pattern in which a married couple may establish their household in a location apart of either their patri or matri relatives.
Family?: a residential kin group based on a woman, her dependent children and at least one male joined through blood relationship.
Age grade?: Organized category based on age, every individual in this set pass through things together as a group.
Affinal Kin?: Relatives by marriage
Incest Taboo: The prohibition of sexual relations between specified individuals, usually parent/child and siblings at a minimum
Natolocal?: as per the Nayar: everyone stays "home"
Ambilineal Descent?: Descent through wich the individual may associte with either the mother or the father.
Age Sets?: 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"
exogamy?: MArriage outside group.
Lineal (eskimo) system: Emphasizes nuclear family by specifically identifying mother, brother, father, sister, while lumping together everyone else into broad categories such as "aunt" or "uncle"
stratified society?: 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
Open class societies: Stratified societies that permit a great deal of social mobility
Marriage?: 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.
Avunculocal?: A married couple resides with the husbands - mothers - brothers residence (Trobrianders).
Patrilineal descent: Descent is traced exclusively through the male line for purposes of group membership
Bride Service?: A designated period of time after marriage where the groom works for the brides parents.
Patrilateral Parallel Cousin Marriage: 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].
Matrilocal residence?: a married couple lives in the locality associated with the wife's relatives
Egalitarian societies.: A society where there are as many imprtant positons exist as there are people.
Forms of the family?: nucular
extended
polygynous?
polyandrus?
Extended family.: a collection of nuclear families, related by ties of blood, that live in one house.
Endogamy?: Marriage within a group,
Phantry?: 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.
Patrilocal residence: A residence pattern in which a married couple lies in the locality associated with the husband's father's relatives
Bride Price?: Compensation paid ny the goom or the grooms parents to the family of the bride,
Serial Monogamy: a marriage form in which a man or woman marries a series of partners in succession
Social class: a set of families that enjoy equal or nearly equal prestige according to the system of evaluation
Descent group?: 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]
Common-interest associations?: Associations not linked by age, kinship, marriage territory, that result in the act of joining.
Matrilineal descent?: Descent is traced exclusively through the female line for purposes of group membership
Caste?: A Special form of social class where membership is determained at birth, and remains fixed for life.
Clan?: A non corporate descent group with each member claiming a descent from a sommon anscestor without knowing the exact links to that ancestor.
symobolic indicators: in a stratified society, activities and possessions that are indicative of social class.
Kindred?: a group of consanguineal kin linked by heir relationship to one living individual; includes both maternal and paternal kin.
totemism: the belief that people are related to particular animals, plants or natural objects by virtue of descent from common ancestral spirits.
unilineal descent?: descent that established group membership either through the male or female line.
Verbal evaluation:: the way in which people in a stratified society evaluate members of their own society.
Monogamy?: marriage in which an individual has a single spouse.
Levirate?: A marriage custom according to which a widow marries a brother of her dead husband
RESIDENCE PATTERNS: Patralocal
matrilocal
ambiloca
neolocal
avnunculocal
What are three marriage exchanges?: dowry - brides parents pay grooms family
bride service - groom works
bridewaelth - groom or family compenaste brides family.
functions of the family>?: Nurturance of Children
Economic Cooperation
HOusehold.: 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.
Lineage?: a corporate descent group whose members trace their genealogical links to a common ancestor.
MAtrilnial cross cousin marriage?: 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].
Crowe System?: 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
COnjugal Family?: A family consisting of one (or more) men married to one (or more) women, and their children.
COnjugal bond.: The bond between a man and a woman who are married.
Iroquois System: 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.
Dowry?: payment of a womans inheritence at the time of her marriage to her or her husband.
Double descent.: descent is traced matrilinealy for some purposes, patrilinealy for others.
Consanguineal kin: Relatives by birth; blood relatives.
Hawiian system?: Kinship reckoning where all kin of the same sex and generation are called the same term.
Consnguine Family?: a Family consisting of related women, their brothers and the offspring of the women.
Descriptive (sudanese) system.: 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.
nuclear family?: family unit consisting of husband, wife, and dependent children

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