Kinship

KINSHIP

- "web of social relationships"

CONSANGUINEAL

kinship connections based on descent

AFFINAL

family relationships created through marriage

UNILINEAL

descent is recognized through only one line or side of the family

Matrilineal Descent

• found among 15% of cultures

• Kinship is traced through the female line

• Women control land and products

• Found in Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, and in some parts of Europe and North Americа

Ashante/Ashanti (Ghana)

women inherit status and property directly from their mothers

Minangkabau (Sumatra)

a man traditionally marries into his wife's household, and the woman inherits the ancestral home

KHASI TRIBE (INDIA)

• a woman cannot be forced into marriage

• women own the children and properties

• a woman may end the marriage at her will

Patrilineal Descent

•Found among 45% of all cultures Kinship is traced through the male line

• Males dominate status, power, and property

MUONG(VIETNAM)

-only men own the properties

Bilateral Descent

• kinship is traced through both ancestral lines of the mother and father

• reckons kin through sexes equally

Kinship by Marriage

"Socially or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them, and their children."

Marriage

- An important social institution wherein two persons, a man and a woman, enter into a family life.

- It is the foundation of the family and an inviolable social institution whose nature, consequences, and incidents are governed by law and not subject to stipulation

- Matriarchal/ Matrifocal

- Patriarchal/Patri focal

- Monogamous

- Polygamous (polyandry or polygyny)

Four Types of Families based on Marriage Systems

compadrazgo

kinship by ritual

reconstituted family

step family