Sex and Marriage Key Terms

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Chapter 19

• Sex and Marriage Key Terms

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• marriageA relationship between one or more men
  (male or female) and one or more women (female or
  male) who are recognized by society as having a
  continuing claim to the right of sexual access to
  one another.
• conjugal bondThe bond between two individuals
  who are married.

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• consanguineal kinRelatives by birth so-called
  blood relatives.
• affinal kinRelatives by marriage.

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• incest tabooThe prohibition of sexual relations
  between specified individuals, usually
  parent-child and sibling relations at a minimum.
• endogamyMarriage within a particular group or
  category of individuals.

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• exogamyMarriage outside the group.
• bride-priceCompensation the groom or his family
  pays to the brides family upon marriage.

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• monogamyMarriage in which an individual has a
  single spouse.
• polygynyMarriage of a man to two or more women
  at the same time a form of polygamy.

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• polyandryMarriage of a woman to two or more men
  at one time a form of polygamy.
• group marriageMarriage in which several men and
  women have sexual access to one another.

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• levirateA marriage custom according to which a
  widow marries a brother of her dead husband (a
  man marries his dead brothers widow).
• sororateA marriage custom according to which a
  widower marries his dead wifes sister (a woman
  marries her deceased sisters husband).

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• serial monogamyA marriage form in which a man or
  a woman marries or lives with a series of
  partners in succession.
• patrilateral parallel-cousin marriageMarriage of
  a man to his fathers brothers daughter, or a
  woman to her fathers brothers son (i.e., to a
  parallel cousin on the paternal side).

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• matrilateral cross-cousin marriageMarriage of a
  woman to her fathers sisters son, or a man to
  his mothers brothers daughter (her cross-cousin
  on the paternal side, his cross-cousin on the
  maternal side).
• bride serviceA designated period of time after
  marriage when the groom works for the brides
  family.

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• dowryPayment of a womans inheritance at the
  time of her marriage, either to her or to her
  husband.