Chapter 9 Anthropology Marriage & Family Flashcards

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Sexual Union/Marriage
Marriage, is a socially legitimate sexual union. (Not every society is the same. Some sexual relations w/ a spouse may be taboo or suspended like during mensturation and pregnancy.)
Post-Partum Sex Taboo
The rule that a husband and wife must abstain from any sexual activity for a period of time after birth of child.
Marriage and Family Functions
To create fairly stable relationships between men and women that regulate sexual mating. Provide a mechanism for regulating sexual division of labor that exists to some extent in all societies. And also, marriage creates family relationships that can provide for the material, educational and emotional needs of children.
Incest Taboo
Prohibition of sexual intimacy between people defined as close relatives.
Natural Aversion Theory
"There is a natural aversion to sexual intercourse amount hose who had grown up together." No natural (genetically produced) aversion to having sexual relations w/in nuclear family, but there's evidence to suggest that such an aversion may be developed.
Kibbutz
According to Yohina Talmon, sexual attraction between Israelis reared on the same communal farm/settelement or ____.
Inbreeding Theory
Holds that mating between close kin, who are likely to carry same harmful recessive gene, tends to produce a higher incidence of genetic defects which result in an increase susceptibility to disease and higher mortality rates.
OutBreeding
Occurs in populations that have strong incest taboos or has positive genetic consequences.
Family Disruption Theory
Closely linked to Bronsilaw Malinowski, and holds that mating between a mother and song father and daughter or brother and sister would create such intense jealousy w/in the nuclear family that the family would not be able to function.
Role Ambiguity
Created by incest. Confusion about how one is expected to behave.
Exogamy
A rule requiring marriage outside of one's own social or kinship group.
Endogamy
Rule requiring marriage w/in specified social or kinship group. (Hindu Caste.)
Arranged Marriage
Marriage in which the selection of the spouse is outside control of bride or groom.
Preferential Cousin Marriage
Preferred form of marriage between parallel or cross cousins.
Cross Cousins
Children of one's mother's brother, or of father's sister.