ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tunxis Community College, Kinship Terminology, Patrilineality
6 Jan 2021
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Members of dad"s matrilineage lumped into one kinship category divided only by gender. Doesn"t reveal ego also lumps all of the members of wife"s patrilineage as well as dad"s mom"s patrilineage. Ego calls 4 uncle, and reciprocates by calling ego (9 or 10) nephew. Ego belongs to patrilineage of his dad"s. Labeling in this way keeps track of the state of alliance between intermarrying groups (itaha/inegi/itiga *handout) Also mark out a range of relatives within in which an individual may not marry out to the second cousin degree. Dispersed alliance manifestation of the negative rule must find a spouse beyond the range of kinsmen marked by the kinship term itiga . That strange asymmetry is actually the result of a particular kinship naming practice which rather than labeling the generations successively, labels the groups members who have married into the same kinship group in the past. Position of groups based on a direct exchange of spouses.
