ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Totem, Omaha Kinship, Kinship Terminology
4 Mar 2016
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Ambilineal descent: descent in which the individual may affiliate with either the mother"s or the father"s descent group. (p. 202) Clan: a noncorporate descent group whose members claim descent from a common ancestor without actually knowing the genealogical links to that ancestor. (p. 203) Parallel cousins are equated with brother and sisters. (p. 211) Descent group: any publicly recognized social entity requiring lineal descent from a particular real or mythical ancestor for membership. (p. 196) Double descent: a system of tracing descent matrilineally for some purposes and patrilineally for others. (p. 201) Fictive kinship: friends not biologically related, but considered part of a kin group. (p. 195) Fission: the splitting of a descent group into two or more new descent groups. (p. 203) Hawaiian system: kinship reckoning in which all relatives of the same sex and generation are referred to by the same term. (p. 209)
