The first part deals with the origins of the
kinship system and religious identity of Hadhrami Sayyid Arabs in Cikoang.
We construct a synthetic index by averaging our sociological variables (importance of merchants, weakness of clan, bilineal
kinship system, social stratification and ethnic diversity).
The Toba Batak adhere to a patrilineal
kinship system, she says, and the question is how they reproduced that system during the 80 years between 1861 and 1942 as they interacted dynamically with German missionaries and Dutch colonial administrators.
Masters of Empire is a native-centered history in which McDonnell explains that the patrilineal doodemags of the region framed a flexible
kinship system in which both trade and exogamous marriage practices operated to make it possible for indigenous communities to incorporate outsiders into native
kinship systems (11, 93).
Radcliffe-Brown introduced the concept of a 'Kariera' type of
kinship system in proposing his highly influential typology of Australian social organization, building on his earlier reports of fieldwork in the Pilbara of northern Western Australia, in which the Kariera (Kariyarra) people were taken to represent a widespread type.
Through her generous and frank storytelling, readers are offered a rare insight into Ngaatjatjarra language and culture, including the
kinship system and associated rules and protocols around the right to take, taboo relationships, ceremony, hunting and gathering and labour division, funerary and marriage practices, and tjukurrpa (Dreaming Law).
"I mean, to understand the Yolngu
kinship system -- the Aboriginal
kinship system -- is quite complex," explains Josh patiently, "but everyone is related in some way or another.
Governance was characterized by political favors in exchange for support through the
kinship system and external aid.
(6) Be that as it may, it is suggested that the Kelabit
kinship system is a fundamental factor in regulating social relationships and maintaining the welfare and cohesion of the community.
The
kinship system is where a relative of a child who would otherwise need foster care steps in to provide support.
When you talk to people about their
kinship system, they give you what we might call their emic categories--the categories that are relevant to their system.