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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Three tribes in the video

• Navajo, American Indian matrilineal descent
  system.
  
• Yanamamo patrilineal descent group
• in Greece Double descent patrilineal
  matilineal

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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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In 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
• How goods are distributed and shared varied
  greatly with kinship distance
  
• Eg Son in law have obligation to both communities

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In Greece

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

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The Nuer of the Southern Sudan (Evans-Prichard)
2. The Segmentary System 3. Ancestor Worship
and Lineage Structure
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Nuer

• Distribution
• Physical environment
• Seasonal dichotomy rain-drought seasonal
  migration
  
• Hut, homestead, hamlet, village, district,
  secondary tribal section, primary tribal section,
  tribe, adjacent tribes, Nuerland

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What is a tribe?

• Economically self-sufficient
• It has a name which is the symbol of its
  distinction
  
• A sense of patriotism
• Age-set organization
• Disputes between its members should be settled by
  arbitration
  
• Combine against other communities of the same
  kind and against foreigners
  
• Largest group for offence and defence

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• Divided into segments
• Feuds, fission, fussion
• Lineages are relative groups
• Not corporate localized communities
• Not having an ancestral cult

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Age-set system

• Every male Nuer is in a status of seniority,
  equality, or juniority towards every other Nuer
  man
  
• Age relationships, structural determinats of
  behavior
  

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• No law
• No government
• Leadership is neither institutionalized nor
  permant
  
• Highly individualistic and libertarian
• An acephalous state, ordered anarchy

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Chinese Lineage

• Agriculture, settled
• Segment, new hall, corporate ownership
• Ancestral worship
• Economic resources
• Lineage, sub-lineage, branches, and compounds all
  have their halls

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• If one sub-lineage was richer than other
  sub-lineage, the degree of segmentation within it
  was likely to be greater
  
• Differentiation, within lineage, sub-lineage,
  among brothers
  
• Unequal segmentation
• Localized lineage

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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.