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Brideprice

Brideprice

Ryan Schram

ANTH 2654: Forms of Families

13 August 2015

## Lecture outline and 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), bridewealth. Levi-Strauss, incest, Malinowski

Outline

  • Changes in marriage
  • Many different types of marriage
  • Many different ways of becoming married
  • Marriage is a package of behaviors
  • Two approaches to marriage:
    1. Top-down, holistic: Kinship as an exchange system
    2. Individualistic: Marriage is part of a moral discourse people use to understand and express themselves as individuals.

    Time permitting: alliance versus descent.

Plus: Notes on Marriage trends.

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