ANTB19H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Nuer People, Jikany Nuer, Cognatic Kinship
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Buth: aganatic kinship between lineages; only between groups of person and only. Cognation is called mar; any person to whom a man can trace any genealogical link, considered incestuous (192) A clan is a system of lineages and a lineage is a genealogical segment of a clan generations; very least being 3 generations between persons in virtue of their membership of groups. Word is used only in reference to distant agnates, between whom and the speaker there is lineage cleavage; There is also a buth relationship between lineages of the same clan and between related clans which have a common ancestor but do not compose an exogamous unit. A dinka can be given a buth relationship by being adopted into collateral lineage male or female, is mar to him. A man"s father"s kin and mother"s kin is called kindred who gave rise to them; there is no reason to suppose that the nuer came into existence 10-12 generations ago.
