ANTH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Consanguinity, Patrilineality, Cultural Universal
24 Oct 2017
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Ever society has a way of naming and recognizing a sense of organic continuity (being of the same blood as someone else); and some sense of mutual obligation and/or solidarity. Di erent kinship systems emphasize di erent factors of di erentiation: generation, sex (of relative; of ego, a nity, collaterality (e. g. does mother"s sister = mother?, relative age. Descent: systems of reckoning consanguineal kin: functions of descent groups: Political (both within the group and in relation to other groups) Religious (a descent group may have its own rites and beliefs) Descent groups: unilineal descent, in which descent is traced though parent and ancestors of only one sex. Patrilineal descent: both males and females belong to their father"s kin group but not their mother"s. Only daughters can pass on the family line to their o spring: bilateral descent, in which descent can be traced through either or both parents. Bilateral descent is present in few (but heavily populated) societies.
