CLASS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Patrilineality, Consanguinity
2 Dec 2017
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Kin play important economic, social, political, and religious roles in most societies. Kinship refers to the relationship that are based on blood (consanguineal relatives) or marriage (affinal relatives) The vertical function of kinship provided 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 or marriage. Used to form alliances with other kinship groups. Descent is the tracing of kinship relations through birth or relation 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) Bilineal descent is a kinship system where the child is related by descent to both parents. Bilineal descent is more likely in socities where families do not need to cooperate on a daily basis for economic.
