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 +Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2654/
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 +## Taking a stand ## 
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 +Raise your hand **high** if these questions are true.  
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 +Look around.  
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 +We are all different, even though it's not always obvious.  
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 +## Lecture outline and terms ## 
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 ### Terms ### ### Terms ###
  
-rule of residence, matrilocal (WM), patrilocal (HF), virilocal (H), uxorilocal (W), avunculocal (HMB). Agnatic, uterine (enatic), cognatic. Crow (Robert Lowie)Dobu (Reo Fortune), bridewealthLevi-Strauss, incest, Malinowski+Rule of residence, matrilocal (WM), patrilocal (HF), virilocal (H), uxorilocal (W), avunculocal (HMB). Agnatic, uterine (enatic), cognatic. Incestexogamy 
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 ### Outline ### ### Outline ###
  
-Cross the line +Changes in marriage 
-Changes in marriage +  - People are getting married later. Fewer women ever marry. Why? 
-Many different types +  - Marriage as a civil rights issue. Is it? 
-Many different ways of becoming married +* Marriage is a package of behaviors 
-Marriage is a package of behaviors +Many different types of marriage 
-Two approaches to marriage +  - Crow marriage by capture (Lowie 2004 [1935]: 186) 
- Top-down, holistic: Kinship as an exchange system +  - Dobu serial marriages (Fortune 1963 [1932]: 21-23, 43-53) 
- Individualistic: Marriage is part of a moral discourse people use to understand and express themselves as individuals. +  - PNG Highlands, polygynous marriage common, as is separate residences for husband and wives. 
 +  - Is same-sex marriage a new type of marriage? Why or why not? 
 +Many ways of establishing marriage 
 +  - Betrothal of children 
 +  - Child marriage 
 +  - Ghost marriage 
 +  - Bridewealth 
 +  - Love match 
 +Two approaches to marriage 
 +  Top-down, holistic: Kinship as an exchange system (Levi-Strauss 1969) 
 +  Individualistic: Marriage is part of a moral discourse people use to understand and express themselves as individuals. 
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 Time permitting: alliance versus descent.  Time permitting: alliance versus descent. 
  
-**Plus**: Notes on [[:marriage]] trends. +**Plus**: Notes on [[:marriage|marriage]] trends.  
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 +## References ## 
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 +Fortune, R. F. 1963 [1932]. Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 
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 +Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1969. The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Boston: Beacon Press. 
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 +Lowie, Robert Harry. 2004 [1935]. The Crow Indians. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press.
  
  
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