Anthropology 1025F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-8: Fort Benning, Size Theory, Hutterite
8 Apr 2016
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Family composition of ju/ honasi live in groups of 10 - 30/40 , bilaterally related. Live in villages with population between 40 and 400. Broken down into hamlets that consist of matrilineage or as they call it dala. Say that when a person dies, the soul or spirit becomes young and goes to live on an island. There the soul ages and there a spirit child is created and returns to the world in womb of same matrilineage. Sexual intercourse plays no role in conception; sexual intercourse opens the womb for the child to emerge. Monogenetic ; it is the males who give life and the women who give birth. Matrilineal extended family is more important then nuclear family and refers to all women of his matrilineage by the same term. Most children have had sexual experiences by the time they are 15.
