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    Diagramming Kinship
    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      Anthropology Around Us Outdated Traditions?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
    Same-Sex 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





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