Chapter 6 - Ties That Connect: Marriage, Family, and Kinship
Learning Objective
Kinship plays a fundamental role in weaving the tapestry of culture in all societies. Even with increasing industrialization and globalization in so many parts of the world today, culture-specific ideas about kinship continue to be important in people's lives. This chapter explains the anthropological concepts involved in a study of kinship systems, social structure, and household forms.
Learning Objective 1: Understand the principles of marriage prohibitions, incest taboos, and marriage payments.
Learning Objective 2: Understand multiple types of postmarital residence patterns and their subsequent effect on the structure of family and household over the life cycle of the family.
Learning Objective 3: Understand different types of descent groups and how they form the identity of individuals.
Learning Objective 4: Understand the principles of analyzing different kinship terminology systems and how kinship terminology relates to ideas about marriage, family, household, and appropriate social relations with different sets of kin.
Learning Objective 5: Understand new forms of family emerging in contemporary societies globally as the result of adoption, same sex unions, remarriage, new reproductive technologies (NRTs), and transnational families.
