NAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Omaha Kinship, Totem, Iroquois

• School: UofL
• Department: Native American Studies
• Course: NAS 1000
• Professor: Beaulieu Hendrika

Document Summary

Beware of academics masking racism with scientific rhetoric. Justify conquest through technological (cid:494)advances(cid:495) = right to conquer (right = might) Who defines the emphasis that frames civilization. Kinship is a social network of relatives within which individuals have rights and obligations. One(cid:495)s kinship status, determines these rights and obligations. A descent group is a kind of kinship group in which being in the direct line of descent from a real or mythical ancestor is a criterion of membership. Descent may be traced exclusively through men or women, or through either at the discretion of the individual society. Kin-ordered groups are social organizational devices for solving challenges that commonly confront human societies: Maintaining the integrity of resources that cannot be divided without being destroyed. Providing work forces for tasks that require a labor pool larger than households can provide. Rallying support for purposes of self-defense or offensive attack.