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| Children of two brothers or two sisters |
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| children of a brother and a sister |
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| a child's biological father |
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| one's socially recognized father; not necessarily the genitor |
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| marriage outside a given group |
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| forbidden sexual relations with a close relative |
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| A cultural focus on risks and avoidance of father daughter incest correlates with a __________ family structure |
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| The cultural focus is on avoiding brother sister incest in societies that have non-nuclear structures such as ____, _______. |
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| The specific kin types included with the incest taboo have a _______ rather than a ________ basis. |
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| incest horror is instinctive: humans have a genetically programmed disgust toward incest- debunked; cultural universiality doesnt entail an instinctual basis |
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| incest taboo emerged because early homo noticed abnormal offspring were born from incestuous unions-cannot explain widespread taboo of incest, since human marriage patterns are based on cultural beliefs rather than universal converns about biological degeneration several generations in the future |
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| Freud- children have sexual feelings toward their parents, which they eventually repress or resolve. Malinowski- originated to direct sexual feeling outside- to avoid disruptino of- existing famiyl structure and relations |
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| Familiarity breeds contempt |
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| living togetheri n particular, nonsexual relationships would make the idea of sex with a family member less desirable |
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| taboo rose to ensure exogamy- there is more to gain by extending peaceful relations to a wider network of groups |
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| marriage of people from the same group |
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| stratified groups in which membership is ascribed at birth and is lifelong |
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| Indian castes are grouped into five major categories called _____. |
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| Manifest function of custom |
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| refers to the reasons people in that society give for it |
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| effect the custom has on the society that its members don't mention or may not even recognize |
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| the custom that the eldest child of the reigning monarch can succeed |
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| marital gift by husband's group to wive's group |
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| Marital gift by husband's group to wife's that legitimizes their children |
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| Substantial gift to husband's family from wife's group |
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| rare practice through which widows were burned alive on the husban's funeral pyre |
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| Widower marries late wife's sister |
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| widow marries late husband's brother |
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| 9 criteria used in kinship patterns |
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| generation, sex, affinity, collaterality, bifurcation, polarity, relative age, speaker's sex, decedence |
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