ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Exogamy, Segmentary Lineage, Onchocerciasis
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Evans pritc- abstracting the reality and finding political and kinship structures, analytical structure and ways of observing things that are happening, the tribal structures are important to the theorist. Part of the problem understanding the tribal life most often expressed in lineage terms, they are not completely the same thing. Understanding the social structure of society kinship structure basic features: Kin relations the father son relationship, tracing through the common ancestors. Affines people you"re related to through marriage. Why do we need to know kinship system determines marriage exogamous. Breaking off and moving towards another tribal group, and leaving the lineage. Political structure: tribe associated with territory and its made up of various clans lineage system. When moves to the other tribal group, became a member of the other group and changed the member affiliation. Both of these system overlap by segmentation and opposition.