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.