Examples Of Kinship In Paleolithic Society

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The political economy of kinship in Paleolithic societies are different than the political economy in today’s society. This is because of three distinct differences on how things in the kinships are dealt with. They are how we deal Power or who is king of the castle. Marriage Customs such as divorce and when it is ok to get married. The last is child-bearing like how the child was raised and what children did growing up. Nisa is a !Kung woman in Paleolithic society that I will use to compare here political economy of kinship to mine. In Paleolithic societies the power is given to the person who brings in the most amount of calories. This is because in Paleolithic societies there is no government and people do not have a high value on items …show more content…

We are against divorce you should not have got married if you have any doubt of anything. There was only one divorce and the ex-wife is completely dead to the family. We will not even talk about it. We do not marry to gain access to the other family’s resources. We typical do not even ask for anything of the other family. Once married we become our own independent family and only see them at special events. The typical age my family gets married is about thirty-two, but the earliest marriage was at twenty-six. That’s almost a ten year difference than the !Kung …show more content…

We have not had anyone have more than two kids. One to replace mom and the other to replace dad. Going off of what I have seen is we were lucky to even be breastfed. We were mostly raised on formula after the age of two sometimes before. Being Christians we avoid the topic off sex. We were raised that we needed to wait till we were married, but that has changed a little. It defiantly would not have been ok to run around toughing other peoples junk. One thing I did find that was similar, was I personally was never told anything about sex from my parents. Yet I do not have any sexual aggression. If anything I just try to avoid

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