Anth, 18 Feb 2002

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Unilineal

• Patrilineal: (Chart A in CP p 78)
  
  
  
  • family passes through father's descendants
  
  
  • Ego female
  
  
  • will always be in her father's family group
  
  
  • total of ... 13 including Ego
  
  
  • I should start bringing CP to class or scan the verdammt thing
    
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    • M1,
    
    
    • 6, M7, 9
    
    
    • M19, F21, 22, 23, 26
    
    
    • 36, 37, 40, 41
    
    
  
  


• Ego and F10: Ego's Mother are related, but are not family members


• M25, Ego's husband is not in her family


• Children belong only to father's family group:
  
• if F10 and M9 broke up, he (M9) would get total custody of children


• Patrilineage or Patrilineal Extended Family (photo):
  
  
  
  • father,
  
  
  • his sons,
  
  
  • their wives,
  
  
  • the children
  
  


• all live and work together


• men collectively own businesses which employ family members


• joint pool of money used to purchase tools, vehicles


• money might be spent to train a son as a doctor, who would then treat whole family


• punishment dealt out by _all_ males in family


• family is self-regulating, very little crime


• marriages must be approved by family


• wives in particular must be picked carefully as they will be living with family


• developed where keeping men's labor together was important: herding animals, ...,frequent war


• used by Celtic clans (among others) to divide territory and determine alliances


• ancient Chinese

Matrilineal: (Chart B)

• Ego is M22


• matrilineal kinship group:
  
  
  
  • F4
  
  
  • 10, 11, 13
  
  
  • 22, 23, 26, 27, 30 (not 24,25 in-laws)
  
  
  • 42, 43, 46, 47
  
  


• sisters children and brothers:


• 22 23 26 --> 13 primary economic support, disciplinarian


• Ego's father would have responsibility to his sisters children


• if mother only has sisters, some other male member of the matrilineage fills in, but not an in-law


• if all males are lost the system will break down


• women own land, homes


• men fill power positions in politics, ritual


• M9 is "parentally" concerned for his sister's children: 15 17 19 21


• Advantages:
  
  
  
  • M9 can be a friend to his own children, as authority is vested in another male
  
  
  • Women do not have to stay in unhappy marriages for economic reasons or to keep her children (support does not come from her husband, children are hers always)
  
  
  • Women live with her sisters, her unmarried brothers, her mothers
  
  


• Developed to keep women together as a work force


• provide for support when men are lost in war or gone for months


• Navajo, Cherokee

Clans and Totem:

• after several generations from a common ancestor, totems are used to represent common ancestor


• representative animal


• clan: share totem, common ancestry


• keepers of religios paraphenalia, including images of totem


• all ritual objects belong to the clan and may only be made by it's member


• increase rituals: guarantee prosperity, fertility of totem animals


• clan members do not consume or harm the totem animal


• protects variation in animal species


• maintains balance of creation


• iguana (icon), mud turtle (painting)


• Hopi Kochina doll(show and tell)


• extinction of totem animal can cause breakup of clan