marriage, kinship, and illness. marriage and kinship: some basic anthropological terms kinship...
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Marriage, Kinship, and Illness
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Marriage and Kinship: Some Basic Anthropological Terms
• Kinship boundaries: patrilineal, matrilineal, bilateral
• Residence of wedded couple: patrilocal, matrilocal, neolocal
• Exchanges at marriage: bride-price or bride-wealth; dowry
• Types of marriage: monogamy, polyandry, polygyny (James Bucher’s question)
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Frequency of Marriage Types Across Cultures from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of 186 pre-industrial
societies (Murdock and White 1969)
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Preferred marriage is to the son or daughter of one’s father’s brother’s (the paternal uncle)
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Nadia
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Aisha
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Jamila
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Why is Jamila’s position in her household so tenuous?
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Why do people marry someone who is related?
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Somatization
• Illness as a way to resist oppression? p. 249, footnote 11
• Nadia on being ill from not working: p. 205
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Medical Pluralism
• Western medicine is expensive; doesn’t address the non-medical issues, p. 164-166
• Not all physical problems are medically caused, but caused by social conflicts: spells/witchcraft
• Why might visiting a saint’s shrine help? p. 208
• But social stigma for doing so: Abdul Haqq, p. 165
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Back to a big question: how and why cultures change?
• Has globalization (the relocation of multinational factories to Morocco) generated cultural change?
• If so, how is it happening?• If not, why not?