Kindred

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Kindred ( English , meaning "personal relationships ") in the designated Anthropology (Ethnology) that of kinship network a person, as a personal network some selected relatives of both parents includes ( bilateral : both sides). A kindred always only refers to a single person (referred to as ego or test subject ) and consists only of relatives with whom it actively maintains relationships (and who do not descend from itself). So each person has their own group of preferred relatives of varying sizes, and they in turn are a member of all of their kindreds. Full siblings often have the same kindred because relationships exist with the same relatives.

Because a person's kindred includes some family members of both their mother and father's family ( patrilateral and matrilateral ), not all members of the kindred are related to everyone else, but all are closely or distantly related to the person. Since almost all members live in different places, a Kindred is rarely active together. This kinship group only comes together on personal occasions such as birth , circumcision , marriage , death, or other rituals of passage . It is not a permanent social group , it does not function as a corporate entity and it expires with the death of the person.

From personal relatives group differs fundamentally a pedigree group ( Lineage ), is such only from close blood relative of the mother or the father and is a viable social unit.

See also

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Web links

  • Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek: Kindred as an ego-centered social group. (PDF file: 1.9 MB, 58 pages). In: Introduction to the forms of social organization (part 2/5). Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna, 2011, pp. 42–44 , archived from the original on October 21, 2013 ; accessed on October 1, 2018 (documents for your lecture in the summer semester 2011).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek: Kindred as an ego-centered social group. (PDF file: 1.9 MB, 58 pages). In: Introduction to the forms of social organization (part 2/5). Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna, 2011, pp. 42–44 , archived from the original on October 21, 2013 ; Retrieved on October 1, 2018 : "Definition of Kindred according to BARNARD / SPENCER:" kindred: The culturally-recognized category to which an individual may trace kin relationship. It is by definition, egocentric and bilateral. In other words, each individual has his or her own kindred, and this kindred includes relatives on both the mother's and the father's sides. See cognatic society. «(BARNARD / SPENCER 1997: p.611) […] According to KEESING (1975: 14) it should be noted that every kindred is unique in its composition. The kindred and its composition always relates to a very specific ego and is thus an ego-centric group (ad. Definition of ego-focused group, cf. PANOFF / PERRIN 1982: p.83f and SEYMOUR-SMITH 1986: p.91 ) […] Since all persons belong to many different Kindreds, Kindreds can only be active as groups on special occasions, e.g. B. in the rites of passage of the ego (eg birth, circumcision, marriage etc.) (cf. HIRSCHBERG 1988: p.251) ” .