Review_Kinship, Family and Marriage

What is "Kinship" (persanakan)?

• Relationships with family

• Relationships with friends

• Relationship with kind people

What is "Consanguineal kin" (sanak sedarah)?

• Relatives of Ego through blood

• Relatives of Ego through his/her marriage

• Relatives such as grandparents

What is "Affinal kin / affines" (sanak semenda)?

• Relatives of Ego through his/her marriage

• Relatives of Ego through blood

• System of forebears and descendants of Ego

What is "Descent" (keturunan)?

• System of forebears and descendants of Ego

• Nuclear family formed by mother, father and children

• Includes other relatives such as grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles

What is "Extended family" (keluarga luas)?

• Nuclear family formed by mother, father and children

• Includes other relative such as grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles

• System of forebears and descendants of Ego

This means all relatives on Ego’s mother’s side are equally important as relatives on father’s side.

• bilateral descent

• unilateral descent

• non-segmented society

1 husband + 1 wife at 1 time

• monogamy

• polygamy

• polygyny

• polyandry

1 husband + 2 or more wives at 1 time

• monogamy

• polygamy

• polygyny

• polyandry

1 wife + 2 or more hubands

• monogamy

• polygamy

• polygyny

• polyandry

Rule of Exogamy/ “Incest Taboo”

• means you cannot marry close relatives

• means you can marry close relatives

• means you cannot marry strangers