Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Fictive Kinship, Sodality, Achieved Status
18 Jul 2012
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Lecture 26 part 2 sociological organization: tribes. Higher population density: less fluid membership. Not as easy to move from one local group to the other. More formalized/standardized: fictive kinship (clans), marriage and sodalities. Kinship very important as well as marriage relationships. Hard to trace exact kinship ties, creation of fictive kinship to tie people together. Number of generations, kinship links people between generations through decent. Emergence of formal social subunits that link generation (decent groups), real or imagined. People believed that they are descended from a common ancestor. Becomes so large and complicated, they invent a fictive ancestor: called clans, can be human or an animal. Need a way to tie clans together, marry someone from outsider your clan. Also form other social groups, called sodalities: voluntary organizations, carry out specific tasks for the benefit of everyone, formally recognized groups, egalitarian. Achieved status: good orator, good hunter, personal ability, etc.
