Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Angela Lockard Reed

Outline 6, October 1, 2003

Family

I           Dadi and Her Family

            A          What kind of residence pattern after marriage is characteristic among the Jats of Harayana, North India?

            B          Do villagers in Harayana, North India, practice village exogamy or village endogamy?  How does this marriage practice affect the way in which women dress and how they behave?

            C         Is Dadi’s family a nuclear family, an extended family, or a joint family?

            D         Dadi’s family is large and has reached a point in time when it will break apart.  What are the sources of tension in the family and into what smaller family groups will the larger family probably split?

            E          How does Dadi get along with her sons and what does she expect from them?

            F          How does Dadi get along with her daughters and what does she expect from them?

            G         How does Dadi get along with her daughters-in-law and what does she expect from them?

            H          Is the descent system in Harayana, North India, patrilineal, matrilineal, or bilateral?

            I           How does the institution of marriage among Jats of Harayana effect the status of women?

            J          In Dadi’s family, who are consanguineal kin and who are affinal kin?

            K          What kind of authority does Dadi have in her family, and how does her position of authority in the family relate to the over-all status of women in North Indian villages?

II           Family

            A          Conjugal family

            B          Nuclear family

            C         Extended family

            D         Joint family

            E          Consanguine family

            F          Structure of family can change over time: ex: monogamous couple → nuclear family → extended family → nuclear family → joint family → nuclear family → monogamous couple → solitary family

            G         Family ≠ Household

                        1          Household

            H          Affinal kin

            I           Consanguineal kin

            J          Functions of the Family

                        1          Care of Children

                        2          Economic Cooperation

III          Residence Patterns for newly married couples

            A          Patrilocal residence

            B          Matrilocal residence

            C         Ambilocal residence

            D         Neolocal residence

            E          Avunculocal residence 

            F          Duolocal residence