ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Structural Functionalism
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Clan is the largest group of agnates to trace their decent from a common ancestor and between whom marriage is forbidden. Clans are highly segmented and all the subsets within a clan are known as lineages. An entire kinship system traces all kin relations through both parents. The clan are your agnates but everybody can also trace their relationships to their cognates (both mother and father) and alphines (the people you married into); the nuer called these relationships mar. The patrilineage is concerned only with agnatic kin (fathers lineage) These clans remain relatively constant but the segments within it are highly dynamic. 198 ep wrote lineage values are thus essentially relative like tribal values and we suggest later that the processes of lineage segmentation and political segmentation are to some extent coordinate *****know how to.
