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 +Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2654/3
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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 ## ## 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 ###
  
 * Changes in marriage * Changes in marriage
-* Many different types of marriage  +  - People are getting married later. Fewer women ever marry. Why? 
-* Many different ways of becoming married+  - Marriage as a civil rights issue. Is it?
 * Marriage is a package of behaviors * Marriage is a package of behaviors
 +* Many different types of marriage
 +  - Crow marriage by capture (Lowie 2004 [1935]: 186)
 +  - Dobu serial marriages (Fortune 1963 [1932]: 21-23, 43-53)
 +  - 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:  * Two approaches to marriage: 
-  - Top-down, holistic: Kinship as an exchange system+  - 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.   - 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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