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Kinship, Descent, and Marraige
Kinship, Descent, and Marraige
AKO calls his male children mga anak na lalaki (sons) and his
or affinity.
1. THEORIES OF KINsHIP
American ethnologist and a principal founder of scientific anthropology, known especially for
establishing the study of kinship systems and for his comprehensive theory of social evolution.
He explained, and the same point was repeated by Engels, that it was kinship, the notion of common
descent and ancestry, that lay at the root of social relationships. ... As Morgan and Engels clearly saw
kinship and territory are the foundations of all societies before the rise of the state.
with close kin.Freud Was (Half) Right About Incest. Freud may have been partially right when he said we
were all repressing incestuous urges. In a new study, people were more attracted to faces that
resembled their own or that were preceded by a subliminal image of their opposite sex parent
each other.He also held that affinal relations framed the most basic and irreducible unit of kinship—what
he called the “atom of kinship.” Where descent theorists defined a set of parents and children as the
core of kinship relations, Lévi-Strauss defined it as a husband and wife, their son, and the wife's brother
2. DESCENT GROUPS
apuhan.
another.
2.5 Lineages
angkan.
4. MARITAL cUSTOMS
4.1 Endoganmy
4.2 Exogamy
to be. They can separate anytime they like and look for
their whole life, and which ofits ouwn very nature is ordered
and the two will become one. So, they are no longer two but
one. Any man who divorces his wife for any cause other than
SEPARATION
6.1. Divorce
and voidable.