Kinship Systems It is important to note that a kinship system can be taken to be a rather complex feature that determines the role of individuals, their relations to each other as well as their obligations and responsibilities. In this text, I conce Continue Reading...
Iroquois Kinship Iroquois horticultural kinship The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee are a matrilineal horticultural society based on longhouse clans where the women traditionally farm, own the output of their labor, and have decision power in a decentral Continue Reading...
Iroquois Kinship System THE IROQUOIS Iroquois kinship system was initially identified by Morgan, 1871, as the system to define family. Iroquois is among the six main kinship systems namely Eskimos, Hawaiian, Sudanese, Crow, Omaha and Iroquois. The Continue Reading...
Kinship in Australian Aborigines The individuality promoted by American and other Westernized societies makes one often forget the kinship, extended-family-based networks present in most other societies, and especially those in which the main way o Continue Reading...
