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| A prohibition against having sexual relations with those too closely related to you. |
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| a nonunilineal descent system which acknowledges relatives on both the mother’s and father’s side of the family. |
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| A local group made up of bilateral relatives. The social significance of the kindred varies according to the nature of the kinship system, because different kinship systems employ different principles of selection or closure which limit or channel a person’s social relations with certain members of the kindred. (422) [Kindreds are ego based. Each person, with the exception of full siblings, will have a different kindred. For example, you may have a first cousin on your mother’s side, and a first cousin on your father’s side, but the first cousins are not first cousins to each other.] |
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| The tracing of descent through one side of the family only. |
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| Tracing descent through the father and his male ancestors. |
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| `”on the mother’s side.” Refers to those who are linked by descent through the mother and the mother’s relatives. |
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| A system whereby two systems of social groups or categories exist (for different purposes) in the same society, one based on patrilineal descent and the other on matrilineal descent. |
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| A descent system where an individual may decide to trace his or her descent through either the male or female line. This choice may be made at each generation so that a male ego may trace descent through his father and father’s father, or his father and his father’s mother, or his mother and mother’s father, or his mother and his mother’s mother. This type of descent is found primarily in Polynesia where land is scarce and finding a justification to claim land is vital. |
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| A marriage for a male to his father’s sister’s daughter or his mother’s brother’s daughter. [You may also look at this as a marriage for a female to her father’s sister’s son or her mother’s brother’s son.] |
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| Brideprice or Bridewealth |
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| a substantial transfer of goods or money to the bride's kin by the groom or his kin at or before the marriage. Characteristically these payments establish rights over the wife's sexuality, work services, residence, fertility and the like. |
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| the role of brideprice in effecting the transfer of rights to filiate offspring to the groom’s descent group. |
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| rights to the domestic services of a woman as wife. |
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| a marriagae system whereby I give you my sister (or female parallel cousin, etc.) as a wife while you give me your sister (or female parallel cousin, etc.) as a wife. This is a direct exchange at in a single generation. |
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| Bilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage |
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| A marriage system which results from sister exchange. I will marry a woman who is both my father’s sister’s daughter and my mother’s brother’s daughter. |
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| Matrilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage |
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| [NOTE: works from the perspective of a male ego.] A marriage where I marry my mother’s brother’s daughter. This results in a system of indirect exchange. I always receive wives from one group but give my sisters to a different group. Essentially marriage occurs in a circle. |
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| Patrilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage |
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| [NOTE: works from the perspective of a male ego.] A marriage where I marry my father’s sister’s daughter. This is a direct marriage exchange which occurs over two generations rather than simultaneously as in sister exchange. |
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| the norm that a man should marry his daughter into a family of higher status than his own. In such a marriage system, a woman should preferably marry a superior but may marry an equal, and a man should not marry a woman of higher status than himself. |
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| a form of marriage norm in which a man should marry a woman of higher status than himself. Hypogamy is a structural phenomenon which represents the tension between paternal and maternal lies, while hypergamy represents the triumph of the paternal over the maternal lineages. |
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| a substantial transfer of valuable goods or money from the bride’s family and/or relatives to the bride (usually), the groom, or the groom’s family in connection with her marriage. It can function as a kind of anticipated inheritance. |
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