Kin Groups and Social StructureAn introductory survey of anthropological theory on kinship and social structure; case studies included discussion of the Kariera four-section system as an example of a symmetrical alliance system. |
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KINSHIP IN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE | 1 |
KINSHIP AND DESCENT | 9 |
PATRILINEAL DESCENT AND | 25 |
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A. R. Radcliffe-Brown adaptive affiliation affines Africa agnatic alliance systems American Anthropologist ancestors Anthro anthropologists Australian band bilateral kinship Chimbu clan classed common descent conceptual corporate groups cousins cultural daughter defined descent categories descent groups descent systems Dravidian ecological ego's Elm Street Smiths exogamy extended family father female FIGURE forms hapu Iroquois Karimera kin groups kin terms kindred kinship and descent kinship reckoning kinship terminologies Kwaio Kwangafi Lévi-Strauss lineage systems live Lounsbury male marriage marry matrilineal descent systems matrilineal systems Melanesia membership moieties mother's brother Needham Nuer parallel patrilateral patrilineage patrilineal descent pattern political Press principle relationship relatives residence ritual roles rule of descent Scheffler segmentary segments siblings sister Smiths and Joneses social groups social organization social structure subclan symbolic Tallensi territory tribal societies tribal world tribes Trobriand Trobriand Islanders unilineal descent unilineal descent systems University uxorilocal village wife-givers wife-takers wives women