ANT100Y1 Study Guide - Bsc Young Boys, Structural Functionalism, Exogamy
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Lineage values are thus essentially relative like tribal value, and we suggest later that the processes of political segmentation and lineage segmentation are to some extent coordinate: kinship and political structure work together to create nuer society. The distinction is one the anthropologist is making in order to describe the social structures of the nuer; to describe how the different structures of a society are interrelated, and help to reproduce the society over time. That is why we call e. p a structural functionalist. Kinship and political structures work together to create nuer society: e. p is concerned with clan system for kinship and tribe for political structure, through fission, lineage groups may go to live in other territories. Once they move there, they belong politically to that tribal territory. Nevertheless, they must maintain certain kinship knowledge and practices such as exogamy and religious/ritual practices: diel: the aristocratic clan associated with the dominant clan in a tribal section called.
