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Unit 1: Family & Households Eenheid 1: Gesin & Huishouding

Unit 1: Family & Households Eenheid 1: Gesin & Huishouding. Anthropology (ANT) 214. Two fundamentally different types of family 1. Nuclear family - based on marital ties (conjugal / aanververwant )

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Unit 1: Family & Households Eenheid 1: Gesin & Huishouding

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  1. Unit 1: Family & HouseholdsEenheid 1: Gesin & Huishouding Anthropology (ANT) 214 S du Plooy 26-01-2012

  2. Two fundamentally different types of family • 1. Nuclear family - based on marital ties (conjugal / aanververwant) • 2. Extended family - larger social unit based on blood ties (consanguine / bloedverwant) among three or more generations of kin S du Plooy 26-01-2012

  3. Nuclear Family / Kerngesin S du Plooy 26-01-2012

  4. 1. Consists of husband and wife and their children • 2. A two-generation family formed around the conjugal or marital union • Most likely found in societies with greatest amount of geographic mobility • 3. Declining in the United States • a. Women are delaying marrying and having children • b. Increased cost of maintaining a middle-class household has caused couples to opt for remaining childless • c. Increasing divorce rate has contributed to increase in nonnuclear families in recent decades S du Plooy 26-01-2012

  5. Extended Family / Uitgebreidegesin S du Plooy 26-01-2012

  6. 1. Blood ties more important than ties of marriage • 2. Consists of two or more families that are linked by blood ties • 3. Based on parent-child linkages • 4. Obligations to lineage may be more important than relationship to spouse • 5. Rough correlation exists between extended family systems and an agricultural way of life • a. Provide large numbers of workers • b. Prevent subdivision of land • c. Exist where there is a lack of man or woman power to simultaneously carry out subsistence and domestic tasks S du Plooy 26-01-2012

  7. Polyandrous family / Poliandiesegesin S du Plooy 26-01-2012

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  9. Polygynous family / Poliginiesegesin S du Plooy 26-01-2012

  10. Single parent family / Enkelouergesin S du Plooy 26-01-2012

  11. Same-sex family S du Plooy 26-01-2012

  12. Blended family (reconstituded family) S du Plooy 26-01-2012

  13. Cf. • Universal nuclear family group (universelekerngesingroep); nonconjugal family (nie-aanverwantegesin) • Elementary conjugal family (elementêreaanverwantegesin) • Joint family • Composite (compound) family • Multi-generational family S du Plooy 26-01-2012

  14. 1. Progressive nuclearization of the family in the face of modernization • 2. Extended family ties may be preserved (even U.S. has experienced a 38% increase in multi-generational families between 1990-2000. • 3. No longer a “typical” family cf. Zhiel Modern-Day Family Structure S du Plooy 26-01-2012

  15. Households / Huishoudings ANT214 S du Plooy 26-01-2012

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