Outline of Chapter 6 How Cultures Create Kinship

Outline of Chapter 6
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Outline of Chapter 6
* How Cultures Create Kinship
* Define the three ways cultures create kinship
1 Studying Kinship: From Formal Analysis to Kinship in Action
2 Descent: unilineal descent, bilineal descent (patrilineal descent and matrilineal descent)
3 Sharing: kinship through food sharing, adoption and fostering
4 Culturama: the Minangkabau of Indonesia, ritually established kinship
5 Marriage: selecting a spouse (incest taboo, parallel cousins, cross-cousins, endogamy, exogamy), types of marriage exchanges (marriage gifts (dowry, bride price, bride service), forms of marriage (monogamy, polygamy, polygyny, polyandry)
* Households and Domestic Life
* How Anthropologists Define and Study Households and Domestic Life: family, household
1 The Household: Variations on a Theme; nuclear household, extended household
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