Week 10 · Readings & resources

Week 10 — Readings & Resources

Cultural Anthropology Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 10 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 11 items (5 readings and 6 videos). Allow 90–107 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (18–20 min total)

① What a marriage joins, and what passes between families

Chapter 10, Section “Define marriage: a union that joins families” · Session 1, Segment 1, “What marriage is” · Remember: a marriage is recognized by a community and binds two families, not only two partners.

When Did Marriage Become about Love? — PBS Origins — a short history episode on marriage as an alliance that brought in-laws and work partners as well as a spouse; as you watch, list each thing the video says a marriage gave the two families, and match it to the rights and obligations in the chapter's definition. Use it while completing the Week-10 module overview. (video, 9 min) (captions: creator)
Marriage and Family, Marriage Transactions — Explaining Human Culture (Human Relations Area Files) — a cross-cultural research summary; read the section on marriage transactions and sort each one it names by who gives and who receives, then compare its list with the chapter's bridewealth, bride service, and dowry. The page also covers polyandry and family households further down if you want to keep going. (reading, 8–12 min)
How do marriage and inheritance rules structure family life? — AnthroDorphins — an anthropologist and filmmaker's overview of marriage and descent across cultures, including monogamy and polygamy and patrilineal and matrilineal groups; pause each time a marriage form is named and say whether it is monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, or a form the course does not name. (video, 19 min) (captions: creator)

② Where a new couple lives

Chapter 10, Section “Choose where to live: residence rules, and descent versus residence” · Session 2, Segment 5, “Where the couple lives” · Remember: a residence rule says where a couple lives, and descent says who they are related to; the two are separate questions.

Theories About Family & Marriage: Crash Course Sociology #37 — CrashCourse — a fast sociology episode on how family is defined, with a stretch on marriage forms, where couples live after marriage, and patterns of descent; note each residence term it uses and translate it into the chapter's five rules. (video, 11 min) (captions: creator)
Residence and Kinship, Predictors of Marital Residence — Explaining Human Culture (Human Relations Area Files) — a cross-cultural research summary; read the opening section on marital residence, from patrilocal and matrilocal through avunculocal and neolocal, and stop before the part on descent groups. For each rule, say where ego's parents in the kinship set would live. (reading, 8–12 min)

③ Households that change shape

Chapter 10, Section “Compare households: forms that change” · Session 2, Segment 6, “Household forms” · Remember: a household is the people who share a home and daily life, kin or not, and its form changes over a lifetime.

Household and family, subject definitions — U.S. Census Bureau — a statistics agency's own definitions of a household and a family; read the two entries and decide whether four roommates count as a household, a family, or both under the agency's categories. This builds on Week 3's work with ethnographic methods: an issuing body's category is a kind of etic label, so read it as that body's category. (reading, 3–5 min)
Why U.S. Adults Live in Multigenerational Homes — Pew Research Center — a survey report on why adults share homes across generations; notice how its definition of a multigenerational home is drawn, compare it with the chapter's, and list the reasons people give that tie a household to the economy or to caregiving. (reading, 8–12 min)
Stages of Family Life: Crash Course Sociology #38 — CrashCourse — a sociology episode on how families change from courtship through child-rearing to later life, and on varied family types; name the household form at each stage it describes. Stop here before gender as a category; next week takes that up. (video, 11 min) (captions: creator)
A Brief But Spectacular take on multigenerational housing — PBS NewsHour — residents of three generations in one housing community speak in their own words about sharing daily life across generations; decide whether their community works like a household, a neighborhood, or something in between. (video, 4 min) (captions: creator)
One roof, three homes: America catches on to multigenerational living — Guardian Culture — a short film about one family whose generations share a single house with separate wings; name the household form and say what in the economy or the life course the family says shaped it. (video, 4 min) (captions: automatic)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

Marriage and Domestic Partnership, Defining Marriage — online Encyclopedia of Philosophy (reference entry) — a reference-work entry; read only section 1, which asks what makes a relationship a marriage at all, and skip the later sections on law and politics, which this course does not argue. (reading, 5–8 min)

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