Short notes

Descent, Filiation and Complimentary Filiation

Definition

A key feature distinguishing tribes from bands is the presence of pan-tribal sodality (associational organisation).

Thinkers

  • A.R. Radcliffe-Brown — structural-functionalism: institutions function like organs to maintain social structure.
  • Kinship Studies in India – Irawati Karve
  • E.B. Tylor — culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom; unilinear evolution and survivals.