March 6th 2008

Review of Arranged Marriage
* Love is possible but not primary motivation for marriage
* emphasis on uniting two families (not two people)
* especially common when transfer of wealth is at stake

Last time we looked at the story of Tristan and Isolde.

The important element of this story is that while Tristan and Isolde were very much in love, they NEVER MARRY. Love and Marriage don't come together until 17th Century.

First comes AMONG THE PROPERTY-LESS POOR. - they have nothing to lose! Structural History of Love:
Increased division of labor - Increased division of labor – market economy (commodity culture) – increased individualism (mobility, there is a need to find a whole), increased freedom and anomie (too many choices, lost) – romantic love marriage: started amongst the poor

Related to love is BEAUTY ... "So through the eyes love attains the heart." -De Borneilh(ca 1138 - 1200?) Beauty ideals forged or reinforced by the media - heavy gender bias. Women are to be beautiful and are held to impossible ideals. (Example of Dove campaign verse Axe campaign by the same company)

Killing Us Softly, by Jean Kilbourne:


My wife's study in Papua New Guinea. (Study done in village that in the last ten years went form Dr. Wesch area to a city of over a 1,000 with TV in every home.)

Women in Papua New Guinea wanted to be bigger (not thinner).

Globalization of love,
happening in the same way that it happened in our own culture (see the "structural history of love" in love lecture).
Love Marriage is spreading Why?
Media Messages
Missionization
Change in infrastructure
Change in social structure

What happens after marriage ...

Residence Patterns (with % of societies practicing)
- Partilocal (67%) - move in with husband's family ( common when the men coordinate work Agriculture or war comes to the area) http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/residence/patriloc.html

- Matrilocal (15%) - move in with wife's family (Wars are far away so the husband leaves) http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/residence/matriloc.html

- Ambilocal (7%) - move in with either husband or wife's family
- Avunculocal (5%) - move in with husband's mother's brother http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/residence/avuncloc.html

- Neolocal (4%) - husband and wife create their own new residence (what our culture does) http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/residence/neoloc.html

- Natalocal (2%) - both husband and wife stay with their own parents http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/residence/nataloc.html

http://family.jrank.org/pages/1018/Kinship-Residence-Rules.html

http://anthro.palomar.edu/marriage/marriage_5.htm

http://anthro.palomar.edu/marriage/quizzes/marquiz5.htm (this quiz is really good and gives good feedback)



Who they live with ... Family Forms
- Nuclear - parent(s) and their kids
- Extended - multiple nuclear families together (siblings, wives, and offspring)
- Polygamous

What kind of houses they live in ...
- Integrated with Environment, subsistence pattern, family form, etc.
They also illustrate very important core cultural values.