Transcript 120fam&kin
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 Greek Americans and arranged marriage The family as the cornerstone of our culture • • • • Minimizes sexual competition Provides cooperative alliances Forms the basic economic unit Provides emotional support 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 ANTH 120 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Tuesday, October 28, 2003 Video: Kinship and Descent Part I Notes from Video: Kinship and Descent • • • Trobriand Islanders Mendi (New Guinea) Unilineal descent” patrilineal & matrilineal Lenski: Societal Types & History Lewis Henry Morgan Systems of Consanguity and Affinity in the Human Family (1870) Lewis Henry Morgan societas -- kinship -- classificatory civitas -- property -- descriptive 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 “Kinship Algebra” & basic kin relations F - father M - mother B - brother Z - sister S - son D - daughter H - husband W - wife “Kinship Algebra” & basic kin relations See charts That’s all for today!