ASIANAM 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Feud, Bride Price, Ascribed Status
27 Jun 2016
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No formal relation from a band and as a unit to another band: tribes b. i. There is a pantribal organizational principle to create a cohesive order. Work together to solve problems, raise an army. Nuer divided into tribes and were an ethnic group. Each subunit had their own tribal entity. b. iii. The clans would be divided up into individual lineages. b. iii. 1. b. iii. 2. b. iii. 3. b. iii. 4. b. iii. 5. Blood wealth: payment of cows to end the feud. Payment of cows then used for bridewealth payment. If c kills a then a fights b. If e kills a then ii fights i. (picture in phone). Feud ends when the person who killed pays cattle. b. iii. 6. b. iii. 7. b. iv. Relations between localized groups and put them as a group. Age grades are formal stages in the life cycle. An individual will go through all the different age grades b. iv. 3. b. iv. 4.
