Marital residence and Kin

Bullet point the 5 patterns of marital residence
- patrilocal
- matrilocal
- bilocal
- avunculocal
- neolocal
what type of marital residence do we practice

We practice neolocal beucase both the son and the daughter noramlly leave and live away from their family
define rules of descent

rules that connect us to our kin
patrilineal descent

we affiliate with the fathers side only
matrilineal descent

we affiliate with the mothers side only
ambelineal descent

we affiliate with either only the mom or the dad
The Kindred
- egocentered. about you.
- who you would pick
define clan

you believe you have a common ancester
define consanguineal Kin

blood family
define affinal kin

inlaws. kin by marriage
describe matrilineal organization

the reason women have power is beucase there is no husband. They live with the brother or the uncle and the women keep the power to themselves

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Marital residence and Kin

Description

test 3

Updated

2011-04-07T02:22:43Z

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