Social Structure¶
Murdock, G. P. (1949). Social Structure.
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Primes¶
- Native-Category Flattening
- The source system is a community whose members partition their relatives by a native kin-term scheme — say, a system that keeps mother's-brother and father's-brother in distinct categories (a structurally important distinction governing inheritance and marriage) while merging several cousins the researcher would keep apart.
This sourceFoundational comparative treatment of kinship terminologies (Omaha, Crow, Iroquois types) in which classificatory systems merge distinct native categories — e.g. cross-cousins recoded as 'mother'/'uncle' — and English-based descriptive terms cut the kinship domain differently; documents the merge/split of native kin partitions governing inheritance and marriage.
- The source system is a community whose members partition their relatives by a native kin-term scheme — say, a system that keeps mother's-brother and father's-brother in distinct categories (a structurally important distinction governing inheritance and marriage) while merging several cousins the researcher would keep apart.
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