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Marriage, Family, and Residence: What Are the Possibilities?


This chapter presents an overview of world cultural traditions surrounding marriage, family, and residence and how these function. The chapter begins with the basics of how to diagram kinship relationships in order that you can read the diagrams presented in this chapter, Chapter 8, and ethnographies.

At the completion of this chapter students should be able to:

Describe marriage rules found across cultures

Describe marriage forms and their functions

Examine mate choice and marriage finance

Describe types of families and their functions

Describe residence patterns and their functions





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