Key Concepts of Physical Anthropology
Chapter 10 Marriage and The Family

Key Terms
Bride price (or bride wealthMarriage
Bride serviceMatrifocal family
Cross-cousinsMonogamy
DowryNonfraternal polyandry
EndogamyNonsororal polygyny
ExogamyNuclear family
Extended familyParallel cousins
FamilyPolyandry
Fraternal polyandryPolygamy
Group marriagePolygyny
Incest tabooPostpartum sex taboo
Indirect dowrySororal polygyny
LevirateSororate



Suggested Internet & InfoTrac College Edition Exercises
@ Go to website: http://www.census.gov/apsd/www/statbrief/ and read at least one article on child care in the United States.
@ Explore website: http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/ to learn the marriage patterns in one of the ethnographic examples given in the Kinship and Social Organization tutorial.

 

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Updated August 2006