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ANTH 120 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Thursday, October 923, 2003

ANTH 120 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Thursday, October 923, 2003. Video: Marriage and the Family. Notes from Video: Marriage and the Family. Turkana and polygyny Zaire pygmies - exogamy & alliances with other tribes northern India and extended families

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ANTH 120 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Thursday, October 923, 2003

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  1. ANTH 120 Introduction to Cultural AnthropologyThursday, October 923, 2003 • Video: • Marriage and the Family

  2. Notes from Video: Marriage and the Family • Turkana and polygyny • Zaire pygmies - exogamy & alliances with other tribes • northern India and extended families • Greek Americans and arranged marriage

  3. The family as the cornerstoneof our culture • Minimizes sexual competition • Provides cooperative alliances • Forms the basic economic unit • Provides emotional support

  4. Engels on the Family • Savagery - group marriage - societas • Barbarism - pairing marriage - clan organization based on kinship - societas - matriarchy • Civilization - monogamy, supplemented by adultery and prostitution - civitas, based on property - the state - patriarachy

  5. ANTH 120 Introduction to Cultural AnthropologyTuesday, October 28, 2003 • Video: • Kinship and Descent • Part I

  6. Notes from Video: Kinship and Descent • Trobriand Islanders • Mendi (New Guinea) • Unilineal descent” patrilineal & matrilineal

  7. Lenski: Societal Types & History

  8. Lewis Henry Morgan Systems of Consanguity and Affinity in the Human Family (1870)

  9. Lewis Henry Morgan societas -- kinship -- classificatory civitas -- property -- descriptive

  10. Kinship Kinship is not biological but a cultural construct. Kottak’s term, “biological kin types” is misleading. Kinship is one of the great cultural inventions of our species, an invention that is essential for all human society

  11. “Kinship Algebra” &basic kin relations F - father M - mother B - brother Z - sister S - son D - daughter H - husband W - wife

  12. “Kinship Algebra” &basic kin relations See charts

  13. That’s all for today!

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