CHEMENG 2G03 Lecture Notes - Consanguinity, Patrilineality
4 Mar 2014
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Kinship and descent underlie all social and political relationships in small-towns. Kinships are social relationships, that relate people through geological lines. Link backwards to ancestors and forwards to descendants. All societies recognize relationships between parents and their children. Kin relationships are also called consanguineal, means to join through blood . In general sense, studies are concerned of the relationships held through blood and marriage ties. Marriage ties are called affines (in-laws), thus being affinal relationships. Descent refers to principle/ culture pattern organizes/makes sense of all the relationships. We need to put aside the common terms that we use to refer to our family. Different kinds of systems of descent: unilineal, ambimlineal, double descent, bilateral. Unilineal are also broken down into matrilineal and patrilineal. Matrilineal descent is traced through female line, an example: iroquois. A drawing schematic, using symbols traces the line back through. In a genealogical chart, the person we are referring to is called ego .
