ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Consanguinity, Unilineality, Patrilineality
20 Apr 2016
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Kinship: social relationships of blood and marriage; focal point of social organization in pre- industrialized societies (foragers, horticulturalists) family, extended family, how they are organized, etc: consanguineal (blood) Those ties of genetic relationships: affinal (through marriage) relations. People who play significant role in our lives but are not genetically tied to us. Descent group: based on genealogical connections to common ancestor, who is well known: unilineal: your links are traced through a particular side of the family. Double descent: when you get rights to things on one side of the family, and other things on the other side of the family. Consanguineal kin who can trace genealogical links to common ancestor: corporate, own property. Descent group continues through time, people live through it and die, but the descent group itself exists beyond the members itself. Intergenerational transfer of property and knowledge (rituals, subsistence practices: organize productive activities.
