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Kinship: Consanguineal
Related by blood
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Kinship: Affinal
Related by marriage
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Kinship: Fictive
Not blood, adopted children
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Kinship: Levirate
man marries widow of deceased brother
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kinship: sororate
wife dies, her sister takes place as wife
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polygyny
man with more than 1 wife
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polyandry
wife with more than one husband
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Kaluli
arranged marriage, patrilocal (wife with male and strangers),
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basseri
husband and wife live in independent tents, bridewealth, inheritance to son, land to daughters
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minangkabau
marriage traced via wife lines, children belong to wife, husband stays as guest.
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samoan
extended household, no parallel marriage, cross cousins are married, Matrilocal - couple lives with wife's family
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Patrilocal
wife with male and strangers
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Matrilocal
male with female and strangers
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Unillineal descent
members of a descent group is based on links through either the matrernal line or the paternal line, but not both,
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corporate descent
permanent kinship groups that have an existence beyond the individuals who are members at any given time
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patrilineal descent
affiliates a person to kin of both sexes related through males only
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matrilineal descent
affiliates a person to kin of both sexes related through females only
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Monogamy
having one spouce at a time - most common due to economic reasons
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polygamy
having more than one partner
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polygyny
permitting a man to have more than one wife
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pathic marriage
gay marriage
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arranged marriages
self explainatory
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anthropologyists have two reasons for why people marry
- 1. materialism: marry for resources
- 2. idealistic: to be with each other
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bridewealth
transfer of goods to bride's family
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dowry
transfer of goods to groom's family
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bride-service
a man must work for the wife's family either before or after the marriage.
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