ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Exogamy, Patrilineality
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Historical time: however far back the oldest person in your family"s memory goes in the social memory of your community, everyone has different events they consider historical events. The older you are, especially if you"re a man, the more authority you have. It is almost inevitable that tension will arise between close kin as resources are quickly over stretched. When this happens, a feud may occur, and when a feud occurs it leads to one section of the family to go off and live in another tribal territory. A common sentiment (a sense of belonging e. g. nationalism: 3. A moral obligation to unite in times of war: 5. A moral obligation to settle feuds and disputes through arbitration: 6. A tribe is segmented with some opposition: 7. There is often a dominant clan in a tribal area: 8. A tribe is one unit in a system of units: 9. Politics is always concerned with territory and power over that territory.