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Chapter 20 Vocabulary
Marriage
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
12/05/2013

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Genitor
Definition
a child's biological father
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Pater
Definition
one's socially recognized father; not necessarily the genitor
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Parallel Cousins
Definition
children of two brothers or two sisters
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Cross Cousins
Definition
children of a brother and a sister
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Exogamy
Definition
marriage outside a given group
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Incest
Definition
forbidden sexual relations with a close relative
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Endogamy
Definition
marriage of people from the same group
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Mater
Definition
socially recognized mother of a child
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Lobola
Definition
a substantial marital gift from the husband and his kin to the wife and her kin
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Dowry
Definition
substantial gifts to husband's family from wife's group
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Plural Marriage
Definition
more than two spouses simultaneously, aka polygamy
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Polygyny
Definition
man has more than one wife at a time
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Polyandry
Definition
woman has more than one husband at the same time
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Sororate
Definition
widower who marries sister of his deceased wife
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Levirate
Definition
widow marries brother of her deceased husband
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