Kinship and descent

Contents 1. Plagiarism Declaration 2. Introduction 3. Forms of marriage and spouses • Exogamy • Endogamy • Arranged Marriages • Preferential cousin marriage • Levirate and Sororate • Monogamy • Polygyny • Polyandry 4. Case studies • Nayar • Trobriand Islander • Tiwi of North Australia 5. Conclusion 6. References Introduction Marriage is a transaction and resulting contract in which a woman and a man are recognized by society as having a continuing claim to the right of sexual access to one…

sense of solidarity. Under the first category, Clifford Geertz argued that nationalism arises from an instinctive cultural attachment. Meanwhile, Pierre Van Den Berghe contends that this attachment was socio-biological, maintained through common descent and horizontal marriage ties. The primordialist approach sees nationalism as continuous and immortal. This is greatly portrayed through the work of Adrian Hastings, who argues for the medieval origin of nationalism in Europe. This approach to the…

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or never considered significance in the matrilineal society of women own wealth since he didn’t investigate women productive by only focus on the male wealth. Therefore, the author study both Trobriand women and men from their matrilineal descent emerged, kinship that form the chiefly power and focused on women productive work, how they distributed their wealth which was bundles of banana exchanged with other women after the death of their husband. However, Malinowski noted that the high status…

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tensions result in neither country being able to capitalize on the available wealth. The president of current day South Sudan is Salva Kiir, whose ethnic background is of the Dinka tribe (BBC, 2016) while the vice-president is Riek Machar, is of Nuer descent (BBC, 2016). Both these officials bring assorted backgrounds of leadership and protest with them into office, and having the desire to advance their ethnic backgrounds’ standing in political office. This caused friction in government that…