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+~~DECKJS~~
+# Brideprice #
+## Brideprice ##
+Ryan Schram
+ANTH 2654: Forms of Families
+August 2015
+Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2654/3
+## Taking a stand ##
+Raise your hand **high** if these questions are true.
+Look around.
+We are all different, even though it's not always obvious.
+## Lecture outline and terms ##
+### Terms ###
+Rule of residence, matrilocal (WM), patrilocal (HF), virilocal (H), uxorilocal (W), avunculocal (HMB). Agnatic, uterine (enatic), cognatic. Incest, exogamy.
+### Outline ###
+* Changes in marriage
+  - People are getting married later. Fewer women ever marry. Why?
+  - Marriage as a civil rights issue. Is it?
+* 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:
+  - 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.
+Time permitting: alliance versus descent.
+**Plus**: Notes on [[:marriage|marriage]] trends.
+## References ##
+Fortune, R. F. 1963 [1932]. Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
+Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1969. The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Boston: Beacon Press.
+Lowie, Robert Harry. 2004 [1935]. The Crow Indians. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press.