ANTH 120 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Thursday, October 923, 2003
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Transcript of ANTH 120 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Thursday, October 923, 2003
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 cornerstoneof 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 -- classificatorycivitas -- 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 - fatherM - motherB - brotherZ - sisterS - sonD - daughterH - husbandW - wife
“Kinship Algebra” &basic kin relations
See charts
That’s all for today!