Transcript Kinship and Descent

Kinship and Descent
Chapter 21
Service Learning Focus Day
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Tues. Nov. 17th
11 am - 3 pm
Walkway between Griffin and the
Cafeteria
Make a list of features and
examples for
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Descent groups
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Matrilineal Descent
Patrilineal Descent
Ambilineal Descent
Lineage
Clan
Phratry and moiety
Kindred
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Kinship
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Eskimo
Hawaiian
Iroquois
Crow
Descent Groups
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Publicly recognized
Social group
Real or mythical
ancestor
Clearly defined
Types
– unilineal
– ambilineal
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Unilineal
– Matrilineal
• women as
breadwinners
• horticulture
– Patrilineal
• males as
breadwinners
• pastoralists
• intensive agriculture
– Ambilineal
Lineage
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corporate descent group
common ancestor
status comes from proof of genealogy
continues after death
takes corporate actions
exogamous
Clan
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Fission of lineage
noncorporate
descent group
common ancestor
but do not know
links
no residential unity
or corporate
holdings
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patri, matri, and
ambi, -lineal
organizes for
ceremony
exogamous
protection and
hospitality
uses symbols -totemism
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Phratry
– unilineal descent
– at least two clans
– share common
ancestor
– unable to trace
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Moiety
– half
– share ancestor
– can’t prove it
Kindred
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relatives
shared relationsh
through living
person
ego is center of
group
group changes with
ego
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ego and sibs only
share same kindred
temporary
changing
ceases with death of
ego
ceremonial grou for
rites of passage
exogamy
Eskimo Kinship
Hawaiian
Iroquois
Crow