Kinship systems, marriage patterns, and family and social organization across cultures.
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- What is kinship?
- The system of social relationships based on descent and marriage
- Define matrilineal descent
- Inheritance and social position traced through the mother's line
- Define patrilineal descent
- Inheritance and social position traced through the father's line
- What is bilateral descent?
- Inheritance and social position traced through both parents equally
- Define ambilineal descent
- Descent traced through either the mother's or father's line, depending on choice or circumstance
- What is exogamy?
- A marriage rule requiring a person to marry outside their own social group
- What is endogamy?
- A marriage rule requiring a person to marry within their own social group
- Define polygyny
- Marriage of one man to multiple women
- Define polyandry
- Marriage of one woman to multiple men
- What is monogamy?
- Marriage between two people
- Define levirate
- A marriage custom where a widow marries her deceased husband's brother
- Define sororate
- A marriage custom where a widower marries his deceased wife's sister
- What is bridewealth (bride price)?
- Goods or payment given by the groom's family to the bride's family
- What is bride service?
- Labor or service provided by the groom to the bride's family after marriage
- Define bride exchange
- A marriage arrangement where one family gives a woman in exchange for receiving a woman from another family