ANTH 3770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Henry James Sumner Maine, Hawaiian Kinship, Bilateral Descent
1 Feb 2017
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Anth*3770 lecture 5 tuesday, january 24, 2017. *we"ll be discussing themes and information from these pages. He took the pinnacle of culture to be the acknowledgement of a bilateral kinship system. Interest in cultural sequence and origins (knowing your mother and your father and their lineages) Used terms like classificatory (primitive, unilineal) and descriptive (modern, bilateral) to describe kinship systems. Classificatory systems were thought to be a result of confusion of biological and moral understanding, misguided primitive promiscuity . Dravidian = referred to groups he found in india. Morgan created the building blocks of kinship studies. Considered polyandry to be primitive (but polygamy was an improvement) Thought that rituals of bride capturing" and female infanticide" were the reason for polyandry. Monogamous, male-female relationships were the most civilized. While morgan emphasized the importance of biology he also looked at the social side of kinship *most people thought social side of kinship to be more important, however,
