SA 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Exogamy

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 301
• Professor: Stacy Pigg

Document Summary

Goal: discuss characters who are strictly relevant to the territorial system. Nuer clan the largest group of agnates who trace their descent from a common ancestor and b/w wohom marriage is forbidden and sexual relations considered incestuous. Lineages = genealogical segments of a clan. A clan is a system of lineages and a lineage is a genealogical segment of a clan. One might speak of the whole clan as a lineage, but we prefer to speak of lineages as segments of it and to define them as such. Alternatively one may speak of a lineage as an agnatic group of members of which are genealogically linked, and of a clan as a system of such groups, the system being, among the nuer, a genealogical system (192) A clan is not to nuer an abstraction and there is no word in their language that can be translated clan inours.