Marriage
Week 2 Lesson 2
Revie
w 1.What are different types of family?
2.What is a social institution?
3.What are the affiliations with kin?
Why
marry?
KINSHIP BY MARRIAGE
Marriage - socially
approved sexual and
economic union, usually
between a man and a
woman.
Types of
Marriage
1.Monogamy: a man is married to only one
wife at a time.
This means that a man cannot marry another wife
while he is still married. He can only married
another wife after he has divorced or his wife is
dead.
Types of
2.Polygamy. Marriage
It involves
plural marriage.
2 types of polygamous marriage
1.Polygyny. A man marries more than
one wife at a time.
two types of polygyny
1.Sororal Polygyny - the wives are
invariably the sisters
2. Nonsororal Polygyny - the wives are not
related as sisters
2 types of polygamous marriage
2. Polyandry. A woman marries many
husbands at the same time.
two types of
polyandry
1.Fraternal Polyandry - when several
brothers share the same wife
2. Nonfraternal Polyandry -when the husband need not have any close
relationship prior to the marriage. The wife goes to spend some time with
each husband. In India, nonfraternal polyandry exists among the Karvazhi,
Pulaya, Muthuvan, and among the Kota as well as the Mannan in Kerala.
Types of
Marriage
the brother of a deceased man is under
obligation to marry his brother's widow
who is also under obligation to marry
her deceased husband's brother. This
type of marriage often takes place in
patrilineal societies where the
immediate younger brother of the
deceased husband is expected to inherit
3.Levirat
to the status, possession and
responsibilities of his elder brother. In e:
“marriage with a brother-in-
levirate marriage, the widow is still
law.”
regarded as the dead man's wife.
Type of
marriage of two or more women with two
Relationship
or more men (Polyamory or polyarmorous
relationship)
-common husbands and common
wives
-all adult partners live together
sharing finances and househould
responsibilities
3. Polyamorous or Group Marriage
Among the Kurnandaburi of Australia, “a group
of men who are own or tribal brothers are
united...in group of marriage.”
marriage was
undertaken without
either a civil or
religious ceremony.
In a common-law marriage,
the parties simply agree to
consider themselves
married. The common-law
marriage is a rarity today,
mainly because of the legal
problems of property and
inheritance that attend it in
Selecting a
Marriage Partner
1.Endogamy -This is the system of marrying
within a specific ethnic group, class,
social group, or family and rejecting
others.
The social norm where marriage is restricted
within the same caste, village, religion, or
race in certain societies like India or Pakistan.
Selecting a
Marriage Partner
2. Exogamy- This type of marriage permits a
man or a woman to marry outside their
playing or tribal group.
In exogamy society or groups marriage, between
members of a group is prohibited. Also called out-
marriage.
Interracial
Marriage
An interracial marriage is when
two people of different racial
and/or ethnic backgrounds get
married.
ex. Asian and Europeans
Americans and Asians
Interracial
Marriage
The first recorded interracial
marriage was in 1614 when
Pocahontas, the daughter of
the Powhatan chief, was wed
to the white English settler
John Rolfe.
Interracial marriage was
made legal in the 1967
Supreme Court decision
Loving v Virginia.
What is the definition of
miscegenation?
The definition of miscegenation is
the blending of two races.
The term was coined during the
Civil War and was used against
Lincoln to say that he supported
interracial marriage.
Anti-miscegenation laws were the laws that prohibited
relationships and marriages between people of
different races.
