Ryan Schram

ANTH 2654: Forms of Families

13 August 2015

rule of residence, matrilocal (WM), patrilocal (HF), virilocal (H), uxorilocal (W), avunculocal (HMB). Agnatic, uterine (enatic), cognatic. Crow (Robert Lowie), Dobu (Reo Fortune), bridewealth. Levi-Strauss, incest, Malinowski

• Changes in marriage
• Many different types of marriage
• Many different ways of becoming married
• Marriage is a package of behaviors
• Two approaches to marriage:

  1. Top-down, holistic: Kinship as an exchange system
  2. 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 trends.