This Chapter Includes Several Examples Linking Marriage Practices with Issues

question 10

Essay

This chapter includes several examples linking marriage practices with issues about property and inheritance.Describe these examples.Based on what you have learned so far about marriage,kinship,adaptive strategies,and political systems,can you suggest ways in which anthropologists could help explain relationships involving property?

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