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Marriage
Vocab--Bon Villain
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
11/03/2008

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household
Definition
group of people occupying a common dwelling
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family
Definition
group of adult kinfold who cooperate economically an in the upbringing of children, and all or most of who share a common dwelling
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marriage
Definition
socially recognized, stable, and enduring union between two or more adults that publicly acknowledge their rights and obligations and forms a new alliance between kin groups
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nuclear family
Definition
family consisting of parents and their children
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incest taboo
Definition
ban on sexual relations or marriage between parents and their children and their siblings
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polygamy
Definition
marriage in which the marital unit consists of 3 or more people
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polygyny
Definition
man married to two or more woman
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polyandry
Definition
woman married to two or more men
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sororal polygyny
Definition
maternal between a man and two or more women who are sisters
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fraternal polyandry
Definition
woman married to two or more men who are brothers
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ghost marriage
Definition
marriage practice among the Nuer of Sudan in which a widow marries her dead husband's brother and in which the children ensuing from the second marriage are said to be the children of the first, dead husband
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bride wealth
Definition
presents given by the husband's family to the wife's kin before, during, or after the wedding ceremony
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bride service
Definition
a period of months or years before or after marriage during which the husband performs labor for his wife's parents
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dowry
Definition
gifts given by the wife's family to the married couple or to the husband's kin before, during, or after the wedding
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matrilocal residence
Definition
pattern for residence after marriage in which the couple lives with or near the wife's family
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uxorilocal
Definition
living with or near the wife's parents
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virilocal
Definition
living with or near the husband's parents
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avunculocal residence
Definition
living with husband's mother's brother after marriage
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bilocal residence
Definition
couple alternates between living with wife's kin and husband's kin
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neolocal residence
Definition
couple establishes a new independent household separate from relatives
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levirate
Definition
marriage preference rule in which a widow marries dead husbands brother
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sororate
Definition
marriage between widow and his dead wife's sister
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