Diagramming Kinship Relationships

Marriage Rules

Exogamy and Endogamy

The Levirate and the Sororate

• Anthropology Around Us Outdated Traditions?

Marriage Forms and Functions

Monogamy

Polygamy

Polygyny, polyandry

Group marriage

Sister Exchange Marriage

Mate Choice and Marriage Finance

Mate Choice

Marriage finance

Bridewealth

Dowry

Family

Traditional Family Forms

Family of orientation

Family of procreation

Extended family

Family Forms in Industrialized Societies

Expanded families, matrifocal families, single-parent families

Residence Rules

Patrilocal (virilocal)

Matrilocal (uxorilocal),

Matrifocal residence

Avunculocal residence

Bilocal residence

Matri-patrilocal

Summary

Study Questions

Suggested Readings

Suggested Web Sites