Marriage and the

Marwiage Perfect Chapter 9 Page 190

• Customs, rules, and obligations between cohabitating adults and their children and kin

• Functionality: . Reduces sexual competition . Provides structure for nurturing offspring . Extends social structure Marriage Rules

• . & Son . & Daughter . Sister & Brother • Exceptions . Egyptian Royalty, traditional Hawaiian culture, etc. • Why? Marriage Rules - Why the Taboo? • Avoiding . Biological disadvantages . But would early societies have known that??

• Common Stereotypes . You know you’re a redneck if… “You think there's nothin’ wrong with incest as long as you keep it in the family” Marriage Rules - Why the Taboo? • Family Disruption . Freud and Malinowski . I'm my own Grandpa Marriage Rules - Why the Taboo? • Expanding Alliances . High value of cooperation between nuclear

• Uncertainty of origin of taboo • Lasting Effects . Genetic variation . Protecting the Family . Community strengths Marriage Rules

• Acceptable Partners • . Marrying outside a particular group . Usually outside blood relatives . Formation of alliances . Example - Northern • . Marrying within a particular group . Secure privileges . Race/Religion Preferential

• Determining who can and cannot marry, and who is the preferred partner . Cross . Parallel Cousins Preferential Marriages

• Levirate - man marries the of his dead brother • Sororate - woman marries the widow of her dead sister

• Marriage as an alliance between groups, rather than individuals Number of

• . Serial Monogamy • - plural marriage . - one man is married to more than one woman . - one woman is married to more than one man Number of Spouses

• World Survey . 554 Societies • Monogamy - 135 • Polygyny - 415 • Polyandry - 4 • 75% for plural marriage Exchange of Rights and Goods • – man must work for for bride’s family before or after the marriage • Bridewealth – goods given to bride’s family by groom’s family • – goods given to groom’s family by bride’s family Rules of Residence

• • Composite Family • • Domestic Group • • • • Avunculocal Residence