ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Patrilineality, Segmentary Lineage, Exogamy
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Ep"s study is a great example for structural functionalism. Functionalism: evolutionary mode, everything has a meaning to survival e. g. religion is to deal with the unknown, kinship because we need reproduction. Relationship between institution cultural whole structural functionalism the parts that are interconnected. Age set scar marks; 6-8 age set within one"s living memory, when one grows up, there is different responsibility. The oldest memories are the people who has the most authority in the political structure. Structural spaces spatial dimensions ( related to structural time) The greatest structural distance is between 1 and 15, the oldest common ancestor. Family connections could be trace through political structure. Structural distance traces back to 4-5 ancestor tribal politics p. 108 time is not a continuum but it"s a constant structural relationship between two points, the first and last person person"s in a line of ____descent . When people get married, they get more herds.
