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strong differentiation between the home and the outside world domestic-public dichotomy 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:41:12 GMT view revision history
female authority, women living together, seen more in horticulture matrilocal 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:39:26 GMT view revision history
male authority, sons and sons wives patrilocal 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:39:26 GMT view revision history
when husband dies, brother steps in levirate 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:39:26 GMT view revision history
when wife dies, sister or cousin steps in sororate 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:39:26 GMT view revision history
compensation from bride's family to groom's family dowry 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:38:15 GMT view revision history
husband works for bride's family for a period of time bride service 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:38:15 GMT view revision history
compensation from groom's family to bride's family bride wealth/bride price 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:38:15 GMT view revision history
marriage of a man to his mother's brother's daughter cross-cousin 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:38:15 GMT view revision history
child of a father's brother or a mother's sister parallel cousin 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:37:18 GMT view revision history
marriage by proxy to the symbols of someone not physically present to establish the social status of a spouse and heirs fictive marriage 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:37:18 GMT view revision history
marriage within group endogamy 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:37:18 GMT view revision history
considered family members but share no relation fictive kin 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:37:18 GMT view revision history
related through marriage affinal 1 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:45:27 GMT view revision history
different terms for all relatives bifurcate collateral 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:35:13 GMT view revision history
same sex siblings grouped together. ex. father's brother is father, mother's sister is mother bifurcate merging 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:35:13 GMT view revision history
all women considers your mother, all men considered your father generational 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:35:13 GMT view revision history
kinship, nuclear family is most important, primary difference is lineal lineal 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:33:40 GMT view revision history
descent derived from both mother and father equally bilateral 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:33:40 GMT view revision history
both matrilineal and patrilineal are recognized at the same time double descent 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:33:40 GMT view revision history
person has option to affiliate themselves with either matrilineal or patrilineal ambilineal 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:33:40 GMT view revision history
(1) establishes group membership through (2) matrilineal or (3) patrilineal (1) unilineal descent (2) mother's line (3) father's line 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:32:22 GMT view revision history
marriage outside of family exogamy 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:32:22 GMT view revision history
members claim to share a common ancestor descent groups 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:32:22 GMT view revision history
network of relatives within which individuals possess certain mutual rights and obligations kinship 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:32:22 GMT view revision history
household, married couples expected to establish their own home neolocal household 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:30:36 GMT view revision history
household, single parent nontraditional household 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:30:36 GMT view revision history
household, single person living alone or with nonrelatives nonfamily household 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:30:36 GMT view revision history
family of blood relatives consanguineal family 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:30:36 GMT view revision history
family formed by marriage conjugal family 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:29:13 GMT view revision history
a kin group of two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption family 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:29:13 GMT view revision history
subordinates comply with domination by accepting it hegemony 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:29:13 GMT view revision history
status someone is born with ascribed status 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:29:13 GMT view revision history
attained throughout one's life achieved status 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:27:40 GMT view revision history
large judiciary system, population control, enforcement, fiscal system states 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:27:40 GMT view revision history
fixed settlement, system for regulations, redistribution chiefdoms 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:27:40 GMT view revision history
occasional leadership tribes 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:27:40 GMT view revision history
small hunter-gatherer groups, nomadic, kin-based bands 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:26:52 GMT view revision history
exchanges dealing with people on the fringes of or outside their social systems negative reciprocity 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:26:52 GMT view revision history
exchanges between people who are more distantly related than are members of the same band or household balanced reciprocity 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:26:52 GMT view revision history
someone gives to another person and expects nothing concrete or immediate in return generalized reciprocity 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:26:52 GMT view revision history
generalized, balanced, or negative exchange between social equals reciprocity 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:25:02 GMT view revision history
goods/services move from local level to center of distribution redistribution 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:25:02 GMT view revision history
supply and demand market principle 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:25:02 GMT view revision history
fund, resources that people must render to an individual or agency that is superior politically and economically rent fund 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:25:02 GMT view revision history
fund, expenditures on ceremonies or rituals ceremonial fund 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:23:59 GMT view revision history
fund, help friends, relatives, in-laws and neighbors social fund 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:23:58 GMT view revision history
fund, maintain technology and other items essential to production replacement fund 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:23:58 GMT view revision history
fund, work to eat subsistence fund 0 itsgoindown Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:23:58 GMT view revision history

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