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- Title
KINSHIP IN ANGLO-SAXON SOCIETY.
- Authors
Lancaster, Lorraine
- Abstract
The study of the social relationships set up by marriage and descent has been the concern of social anthropologists, who have traditionally confined their fieldwork peasant societies. The richness of material on kinship that has been gathered by their researches in Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands, for example, is not matched by a similar wealth of information for complex, urbanized, Western societies. Radcliffe-Brown, in one of the most-read commentaries on comparative kinship theory writes, "As an example of a cognatic system one may take the kinship system of the Teutonic peoples as it was at the beginning of history. Bilateral or cognatic relations may be described as those in which the descent from ancestors and affiliation to kinsmen may be traced through both females and males. Anglo-Saxon kinship systems, like those of modern England, belong to the class of non-unilineal kinship, in which every individual has, in general, tile option of tracing affiliation to a set of persons through both his parents and his parents and so on."
- Subjects
KINSHIP; KIN recognition; FAMILIES; ANGLO-Saxons; MARRIAGE; GENEALOGY; NON-unilineal descent
- Publication
British Journal of Sociology, 1958, Vol 9, Issue 3, p230
- ISSN
0007-1315
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/587017