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Ryan Schram 

ANTH 2654: Forms of Families

13 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.