PSCI 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consanguinity
11 Mar 2016
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Organized based on the kinship and descent and thus on blood lineage. Group united by an actual or perceived lineage usually anchored to the notion of a founding group of ancestors. Various forms of social relationships based on descent, lineages, either of a consanguineal (blood) or affinal (marriage) Kinship rules and regulations protect the survivability of the group. In communities of scarcity disciplined by honor and shame: Marriage, mate selection, birthing, child rearing (inheritance rules, land use patterns in kinship groups) Marriage is about the transfer of property. Marriage is a rite to ensure resource management. In terms of communal survival, kinship rules governing sexuality, reproduction, marriage and mate selection, inheritance transfer of properties. Relate cultural values and disciplines to economic survival (key to this relationship is sustainability) Cultural discipline involves honor toward ancestors and kinship in ways that protect for the sustainability of group survival. Exogamous rules extend marriage slection pools outside the immediate clan toward wider social networks.
