HUMA 100K Tutorial Video Kinship and Descent part 2

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HUMA 100K Tutorial Video Kinship and Descent
part 2
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Summary of the Video

• Role of Kinship, obligation and duties within a
  kinship and descent group
• Three tribes in the video
• Navajo, American Indian matrilineal descent
  system.
• Greece Double descent patrilineal matilineal
  
• Yanamamo patrilineal descent group

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Importance of Kinship Study

• Most important function of the society
• understanding the relationship between people
• Tie by generation and generation

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Navajo in North America

• Matrilineal society
• Matrilocal
• Women are responsible for most of the family
  income
• Call each others by Kinship terms
• Marriage and incest taboo

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Yanamamo in Africa

• Patrilineal society
• Large clan
• Kinship determine the duties in the society
• Eg Son in law have obligation to both communities

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In Greece

• Has the characteristic of patrilineal and
  matrilineal societies
• Separation of male and female social area
• Importance of brotherhood
• Property Inheritance patterns
• Naming system

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Nuer in Southern Sudan in Africa

• Pastoral
• Ordered anarchy
• without legislative,
• judical, and executive
• Tribe as the largest
• political unit
• Small sections within
• tribes

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Segementaion

• Primary, secondary, and tertiary sections
• Feeling of unity
• in a trive is
• weaker than it
• within a segment
• Fusion and fission

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Lineage

• All living male, lack of ancestral worship
• Relative terms Its lineage are only distant
  group in relation to others

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Lack of stratification of society

• Age-set system
• - flexibility
• - lack of political function
• Settlement of disputes
• leopard-skin chief
• mediator
• Lack of law and legal system

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Lineages in China

• Segementary system
• Add of new generations (genealogy)
• Related to economic condition
• Segmentate the privileged form the unprivileged
• A localized community

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The last tutorial

• Chan, S. C. 2001. Selling Ancestors Land A Hong
  Kong Lineage Adapts. Modern China 27(2)
  262-284.
• Freedman, M. 1966. Chinese Lineage and Society
  Fukien and Kwangtung. Pp.118-154. London Athlone
  Press.