Short notes
Forms of descent groups (lineage, clan, phratry, moiety and kindred)
Definition
III. Applications in Anthropological Studies
Thinkers
- A.R. Radcliffe-Brown — structural-functionalism: institutions function like organs to maintain social structure.
- Radcliffe-Brown: Used genealogies to reconstruct descent groups and social structure in Africa.
- Malinowski: Used them to understand kinship and land inheritance among the Trobriand Islanders.
- Claude Lévi-Strauss: Used genealogical/kinship data to develop Alliance Theory, focusing on marriage and exchange between lineages.
- India: S.C. Roy documented Oraon genealogies; Irawati Karve used genealogical mapping to study village kinship and exogamy in Maharashtra.