AN101 Lecture Notes - Trobriand Islands, Kinship Terminology, Patrilineality
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Kinship studies in anthropology takes into account: descent and marriage relationships. We tend to recognize descent by consanguinity (ie. blood relationships: mother) Also recognize descent as a relationship based on nurturance through adoption. A father or a mother can disappear most of the life of the child and claim the right of parenthood based on biology. Descent is not recognized in biological terms. A person is considered the father or the mother of a child when they act as such. Similar to the guayaki the father was not actually the biological. Patrilineal descent recognize only the father"s side of the family. Matrilineal descent only mother"s side: allows us to form diff kind of social groups and even political organizations such as. The nuer (sudan, africa) studied in 1930 evans- Before: it was thought they didn"t have a political organization because they didn"t have a chief.
