with Jacob:
universal kinship terms:
- father
- mother
- brother
- sister
- son
- daughter
- (child)
- husband
- wife
p 69 in CP
Identify relationship to Ego, using universal kinship terms, table A:
- 1: 1's son's daughter = Ego's father's father
- 6: 1's daughter = Ego father's sister
- 10: Ego's mother
- 13: Ego's mother's brother
- 19: Ego's father's brother's son
- 20: Ego's father's brother's daughter's husband
- 33: Ego' mother's brother's daughter
- 40: Ego's brother's son
- 48: Ego's mother's brother's daughter's son
Classification Criteria:
- Gender
- Generation
- Blood or Marriage
- Lineal or Collateral
- Relative Age
- Size of Family
Social Categories:
- obligationa nd responsiblities
- rules of etiquette
analyze by each factor mother, brother, uncle, cousin
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Chart: Eskimo Kin Terms p 71 by American terminology
- B: mother
- E: uncles
- H,G: cousins
- D,C: brothers, sisters
- Assumption: nuclear family: mother, father and their children
- Is this nucleus an economic unit? Yes.
- This group has the highest moral obligations to each other.
- If A dies? E may help out some, but does not pick up all responsibilities
- Nuclear familiies do not react well to loss of an adult individual.
- Too dangerous for traditional societies.
Chart: Hawaiian Kin Terms, as English
- any sibling of my parent is a father or mother
- three women fulfilling duties of mother
- mother's sister will nurse, discipline, feed, shelter children
- man marries a mother -> mother's husband
- flexibility in residence and employment
- if Ego's biological father dies, there is little danger as his other fathers will provide
- relatives are social safety net
- compare to social democracy, trusts, insurance
Sudanese:
- every relative is unique
- my father's eldest brother by my father's third wife ..
- highly specific system, clear obligations and rules
- prescribed gifts from each relative
- Han Chinese, Confucian primary relationship
- used by many non-literate cultures, keep all this in their head
quiz next time on readings on family terminologies
