UCSP LESSON 6

• Kinship


  Relationship or affinity
• Descent


  Biological relationship
• Lineage

  Line where one's descent is traced
• Kinship by blood

  • Unilineal kinship
  • Matrilineal kinship
  • Patrilineal kinship
  • Bilateral kinship
• Unilineal kinship


  Tracing maternal or paternal line
• Matrilineal kinship


  Inheriting or determining (female)
• Patrilineal kinship


  Inheriting (male)
• Bilateral kinship


  Through both (mother and father)
• Lineal


  Having a direct family relationship
• Kinship by marriage

  • Endogamy
  • Exogamy
• Endogamy


  Practiced by a number of ethnic groups, religious, aristocratic
• Exogamy


  Marry OUTSIDE of their own group
• Kinship by marriage

  • Monogamy
  • Polygamy
• Monogamy


  Being married to only one person
• Polygamy


  Being married to more than one person
• Polygamy

  • Polygyny
  • Polyandry
• Polygyny


  One man marries more than one woman
• Polygyny


  • Sororal Polygyny
  • Non-Sororal Polygyny
• Polyandry


  One woman marriage with more than one man
• Polyandry


  • Fraternal Polyandry
  • Non-Fraternal Polyandry
• Polyamorous or Group of marriage


  Marriage of two or more woman or men
• Compadrazgo


  Also known as fictive kinship (God parenthood)
• Household


  All persons living together in a housing
• Types of households


  • One-person
  • Multi-person
• One-person household


  Makes provision for his/her OWN food or needs
• Multi-person household


  Group of more persons living together, THEIR food
• Types of families

  • Nuclear family
  • Extended family
  • Reconstituted family
  • Single parent family
• Nuclear family


  Made up of a group of people who are UNITED
• Extended family


  Whose members go beyond the nuclear/several generations
• Reconstituted family


  Also known as "BLENDED FAMILY"
• Single parent family


  A mother, a father, a grandparent, an uncle, or aunt
• Family


  Refers to the members of the household who are related, through BLOOD
• Post-marital residence rules

  • Patrilocal
  • Matrilocal
  • Family of Bilocal
• Patrilocal


  Men remain to his father, while women remain to her family
• Matrilocal


  Woman remains to her mother, while men remain to his family
• Family of Bilocal


  When a couple lives with or near one of the spouse's parents
• Types of political organization

  • Bands
  • Tribal
  • Chiefdoms
• Bands


  Associated with low population densities, freedom in the society
• Tribal


  Found among horticulturist & pastoralist, sedentary population
• Chiefdoms


  Formal & permanent political, who acts alone