Faulkenese

Hopi indians- houses belong to women, exclusion of boys from adult male activities is greater than the exclusion of girls from adult female activities. suggests girls are more fully absorbed into the female assemblies than boys into male cohorts-sexually egalitarian society, gendered balanced society

Nuer clan- the largest group of agnates who trace their

descent from a common ancestor and between whom marriage is forbidden and sexual relations considered incestuous.

A cln is a system of lineages and a lineage is a genealogical

segment of a clan.

Nuerlan consists of 20 such clans.

lineage is a group of living agnates, descended from the founder of that particular line.

Lineage system= Clan-maximal lineages-major lineages-minor lineages-minimal lineages

rules of exogamy

Nuer say feuds and quarrels between lineages chiefly led to the their dispersal, two factors other than migration, quarrels intermarriage, since they are a pastoral people they are not bound by economic necessity or ritual ties to any one spot.

Nuer-free to wander as they pleased, a man can leave his family, herd, garden, neighbors if he feels like it and take up with other kinsmen usually his sister. Clans and lineages can never be dissolved

into one.

South africa- patriarchal-once matriarchal

duolateral cultures-those that trace descent through both the male and female line.-minority, constitute a significant proportion of those cultures showing some matrilineality. matrilineal descent is what is predicted to occur if females are in control of inherited resources. does not mean females have won the battle simly means males do not want to control specific resources.

Bilateral kinship- english quakers- secretarian endogamy coupled with elaborately preserved genealogy books. In principle all quakers were deemed of equal social status and everbody was related to everbody else. bilateral structures- practical economic significance of descent through females is usually at least as significant as descent through males. -surnames, quakers thought of themselves as patrilineal corporations associated with a particular piece of physical