Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Angela Lockard Reed
Outline 7, October 8, 2003
Kinship, Descent, and Other Social Groupings
I Kinship
A Lewis Henry Morgan
B Descent group
1 Lineage
2 Unilineal descent
a Patrilineal descent
b Matrilineal descent
3 Bilateral
a kindred
4 Double descent
5 Ambilineal descent
6 Clan
a Phraty
b Moiety
C Fictive/Metaphorical kin
1 Compadrazgo
2 !Kung
II Kinship Terminology
A Criteria for distinctions in kinship terminology
1 Generation
2 Sex
3 Affinity
4 Collaterality
5 Bifurcation
6 Relative Age
7 Sex of linking relative
a parallel cousins
b cross cousins
B Systems of Kinship Terminology
1 Eskimo system
2 Hawaiian system
3 Iroquois system
4 Crow system
5 Omaha system
6 Sudanese system
Kinship Diagram
Δ=Ο Δ=Ο
____________1 | 2_________ ____________3 | 4________
| | | | | |
Ο=Δ Δ=Ο Δ = Ο Ο=Δ Ο=Δ
5_ |_ 6 7_|_ 8 __ 9__|__10 11_|_12 13_|_14
| | | | | | | | | | |
Δ Ο Δ Ο Δ Ο Δ Ο Δ Ο
15 16 17 18 19 Ego 20 21 22 23 24
III Other Social Groupings
A Gender
B Age
1 Age grade
2 Age set
C Common-interest associations
D Social Stratification
1 Egalitarian society
2 Stratified society
a Social class
b Caste
c Symbolic indicators
d Closed-class societies
e Open-class societies
f Clientage