cendants have the moral obligation to ensure the perpetuation of the family line so that ancestor worship continues in perpetui

technology services in China. The country’s denial of same-sex marriage also means that nonheterosexual women have no hope of having children legally either on their own or with their same-sex partners.

in which case I think my parents won’t be worried so much about me.” Yet the law is standing in her way: childbearing outside marriage is prohibited under China’s current legal framework,

Knowing that her parents were worried about her leftover status mainly because she might not be able to support herself and perhaps a child in the future, Wei planned to work hard so she would earn a promotion and salary increase.

She preferred to remain single, and eventually she would like to have children on her own or perhaps raise them with her close friend.

In China, if a woman is unmarried by the age of twenty-seven, people may see her as a leftover product in the market that no one is interested in purchasing.

a cultural anthropologist might look at how people in a relatively isolated society change in the context of globalization, the process of interaction and interdependence among different nations and cultures of the world. A linguistic anthropologist might ask how a new form of language, like Spanglish, emerges. An archaeologist might ask how climate change influenced the emergence of agriculture.

A cultural anthropologist studying marriage in a small village in India might consider local gender norms, existing family networks,

In some societies, eating pig is strictly prohibited; in others, pork is a rather ordinary food.

She enjoyed learning Spanish in high school and loved listening to how people who spoke different languages produced different sounds. She was curious about how people inherited unique characteristics from their parents and was especially intrigued by immigration and migration and what caused people to uproot themselves and move to another part of the world. During the second week of class she began to learn about biological anthropology and some of the leading theories for how and why ancient humans left Africa and migrated throughout the world.