ANT 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Imagined Communities, Patrilineality, Legal Personality
27 Apr 2019
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~ chapter eleven: where do our relatives come from and why do they matter ~ At the same time new forms of friendship are emerging. social contexts, ties of kinship tend to be transformed and often weakened by complex and often: kinship: social relationships that are prototypically derived from the universal human experiences. Succession: how to pass on material possessions. In a patrilineal society, women and men belong to a patrilineage formed by father-child links: patrilineal: a social group formed by people connected by father-child links. It is not the same as a matriarchy, brothers often retain what appears to be a controlling interest in the lineage: they may be thought of a group of brothers and sisters connected through links. From the most common to the least common, these include: generation: kin terms distinguish relatives according to the generation to which the relatives belong.
