ANTHR101 Lecture 31: Lecture 31 Kinship
4 Dec 2017
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Nov 24h: kinship determines lines of inheritance, kinship determines social obligations, calling some in kinship term, means we have something in common. Kinship is important in all culture to an extent. Kinship refers to the relationships that are based on blood (consanguineal relatives) or marriage (affinal relatives). The vertical function of kinship provides social continuity by binding together a number of successive generations: used to pass on education, tradition, property, and political office. The horizontal function of kinship tends to solidify or tie together a society through the process of marriage: used to form alliances with other kinship groups. Descent is the tracing of kinship relations through birth or relations with a parent or parents. Unilineal descent is a kinship system where the child is related by descent to only one parent (mother or father) Biliineal descent is a kinship system where the child is related by descent to both parents.
