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What forms of marriage exist cross-culturally, and what are their social correlates?
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
03/31/2010

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Parallel cousins
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Children of two brothers or two sisters
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Cross cousins
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children of a brother and a sister
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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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Exogamy
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marriage outside a given group
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Incest
Definition
forbidden sexual relations with a close relative
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A cultural focus on risks and avoidance of father daughter incest correlates with a __________ family structure
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patriarchal nuclear
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The cultural focus is on avoiding brother sister incest in societies that have non-nuclear structures such as ____, _______.
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lineages and clans
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The specific kin types included with the incest taboo have a _______ rather than a ________ basis.
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cultural, biological
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Instinctive horror
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incest horror is instinctive: humans have a genetically programmed disgust toward incest- debunked; cultural universiality doesnt entail an instinctual basis
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Biological degeneration
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incest taboo emerged because early homo noticed abnormal offspring were born from incestuous unions-cannot explain widespread taboo of incest, since human marriage patterns are based on cultural beliefs rather than universal converns about biological degeneration several generations in the future
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Attempt and contempt
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Freud- children have sexual feelings toward their parents, which they eventually repress or resolve. Malinowski- originated to direct sexual feeling outside- to avoid disruptino of- existing famiyl structure and relations
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Familiarity breeds contempt
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living togetheri n particular, nonsexual relationships would make the idea of sex with a family member less desirable
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Marry out or die out
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taboo rose to ensure exogamy- there is more to gain by extending peaceful relations to a wider network of groups
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Endogamy
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marriage of people from the same group
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Caste
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stratified groups in which membership is ascribed at birth and is lifelong
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Indian castes are grouped into five major categories called _____.
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varna
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Manifest function of custom
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refers to the reasons people in that society give for it
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Latent function
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effect the custom has on the society that its members don't mention or may not even recognize
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Primogeniture
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the custom that the eldest child of the reigning monarch can succeed
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Bridewealth
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marital gift by husband's group to wive's group
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Progency price
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Marital gift by husband's group to wife's that legitimizes their children
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Dowry
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Substantial gift to husband's family from wife's group
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Sati
Definition
rare practice through which widows were burned alive on the husban's funeral pyre
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Sororate
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Widower marries late wife's sister
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Levirate
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widow marries late husband's brother
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9 criteria used in kinship patterns
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generation, sex, affinity, collaterality, bifurcation, polarity, relative age, speaker's sex, decedence
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