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Ch7 Kinship as Descent (Marriage (Incest (Function (social advantages,…

- - - - the group Functions are:
        
        protection (security)
        
        social identity
        
        belongingness
        
        livelihood
        
        career
        
        marriage
        
        Political Stability and Political Interests
        
        Corporate Groups
        
        especially in:
        
        stateless societies
        
        Unilineal systems
        (often patrilinear; or matril.)
        
        organize society:
        
        rights, duties, norms
        
        division of labour
        
        Marriage happens not Through Individuals,
        but through Groups
        
        Clans and Lineages
        
        Clans
        
        assumed shared descent,
        but cannot indicate all steps
        
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        Lineage
        
        member can indicate all intermediate
        links to a common descent
        
        trasmission of Resources
        btw generations
        
        Inheritance --> property
        
        Succession --> Office
  - - - Easier to Delimit/Define (keep track)
        
        more Vertical and no (low?) Overlap
        
        Patrilineal: father's lineage
        
        lineage includes at least:
        
        ego's siblings
        
        father's siblings
        
        children of the men in the group
        
        concentrate all valuable Resources in the principle of Descent:
        
        succession, inheritance, property rights, residence, marriage partner, children and political rights
        
        size depends on genalogical memory
        
        Matirlineal: mother's lineage
        
        ex. Malinowsky Trobriander
        
        Yams production
        
        men still hold political and economical power
    - - Cognatic: through both father's
        and mother's sides
        
        more Horizontal and a lot of Overlap
        
        more Difficult to Organize Kinship Groups
        (Overlap and Exponential Quantity)
- - - - social advantages, like:
        
        increasing kin members
        
        alliances beyond kin boundaries