ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY

ETHIOPIAN INSTITUT OF ARCHITECTUR,

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND
DEVELOPMENT (EiABC)
group assignment 1 Section 3
Course: Anthropology (Anth101)
Title: Family, Marriage, kinship and Theories of ethnicity: Primordialism,
Instrumentalism, and social constructivism
Group members full name Id
1. ABRAHAM TADDESE UGR/0439/15
2. ABRHAM BAYELIGN UGR/9591/15
3. ADONAY SHEWANGZAW UGR/6104/15
4. AFRAH FEKRU UGR/0471/15
5. ALEMAYEHU DABI UGR/5125/15
6. ALIYA ABRAR UGR/1948/15
7. AMANUEL TESHOME UGR/7712/15
8. AWEL OUMER UGR/3415/15
9. BAMLAK GETNET UGR/5999/15
10. BELEN BERHANU UGR/0370/15
Introduction
Family marriage and kinship systems are the basic social building blocks in society, which
makes human binges able to live with others. The most people’s behavior not wanted to live in
isolation but instead in association. In order to living with others in association humans
necessitated to create relation methods like kinship, marriage and family. Those three terms
have different religious cultural and economic views in the world.
Family is the most common institution in the world, and it makes good opportunity for
members to support each other. There are different ideas about the meaning of the term family.
like it is - the group of people related by bloodline or marriage
-They share common residency. They live together.
- They share sentiments of oneness. They view themselves as a unit etc.
Kinship is one types of relation of people based on blood marriage and others. It is very
important in primitive societies and extends its influence on almost all their activities.
Marriage is one institution established to control or regulate the life of mankind. Many
scientists put their own understandings about marriage. For instance, Westermarck in
'History of Human marriage' defines marriage as the more or less durable connection
between male and female lasting beyond the mere act of propagation till after the birth of
offspring. According to scientist Malinowski marriage is a contract for the production and
maintenance of children. Moreover types, rules and the way of getting marriage varies from
culture to culture and society.

Theories ethnicity
Theories are explanations or models that are used to understand and predict
phenomena. They are based on observations and experiments, and they can
be tested through additional observations and experiments. Separately
ethnicity is a group of people regarding culture, language national expenses
so on. Different theories of ethnicity are listed on this topic subjected to the
view of theorists such as -Primordialism,
- Instrumentalism, and
-Social Constructivism.
Reference: Citation: Jack Jackson T.C.B (2015); The Institution of the Family, Marriage, Kinship and
Descent