Examples of using Descent groups in English and their translations into Portuguese
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Structure, particularly the structure of matrilineal descent groups.
Exogamy between households or descent groups is typically prescribed in classless societies.
Matriliny is first about the formation of corporate descent groups.
This form of kinship is most common in societies with ambilineal descent groups, where economic production and child-rearing are shared.
The society was built up of hierarchically arranged confederations of matrilineal descent groups.
Family residence, matrilineal descent groups, the development of political institutions and the role of gerontocracy in life cycles and migration.
They converted their systems of succession,inheritance and the formation of descent groups from patriliny to matriliny.
Kinship relations, descent groups(the sib) and mechanisms of reciprocity interact as a network of communications, in such a way that the various dimensions of the social sphere are related by a common denominator.
So long as matriliny survives in Obo,with marriage weakened by obligations to the descent groups, then covert gynocracy will thrive.
Some currently matrilineal corporate descent groups, such as that of the Ankobeahene of Obo, relate that they were originally patrilineal but, with the arrival of the Akan, they converted from patrilineal succession and inheritance, and the formation of descent groups, to matriliny.
The social organization of the Northwest Amazon is different from most Amazon societies because of the existence of partilineal descent groups, which are named, exogamic, and ideally hierarchical.
Even that brotherhood,used for military alliances between matrilineal descent groups, is occasionally breached as during the nineteenth century battles between the Oyoko lineage of Dwaben and the Oyoko lineage of Kumasi, both founding members of the Asante confederation.
Male elders of the lineage had to consult with female elders in private, before stating the public positions ordecisions of the corporate descent groups, as at funerals or in the chief's court.
The mutually exclusive but complementary nature of conjugal families and matrilineal descent groups, and the resolution of inherent conflicts between them, must be understood in the context of cyclical migration.
New institutions, like banking, a national army, police, a legal court system, large commercial and state corporations, anda civil service came to replace some of the functions of matrilineal descent groups.
No corporate descent groups are formed on the basis of patriliny, and the groups, relegated to a subordinate position because of the expansion of Akan matriliny,(vaguely spiritual categories even before colonial times), are rapidly disappearing.
In the case of the Tariana, who occupy the region of the middle Rio Uaupés(where the Eastern Tukano peoples predominate),one observes that they are integrated as one of the descent groups within the Uaupés social system.
Matriliny, based upon ranked confederations of matrilineages, is the basis for more effective organisation for war than is patriliny where the patrilineal corporate descent groups had no mechanism for confederating. Confederations were structured as in an army, with one lineage designated for each of four deployment positions, forward, left, right, and rear, plus interior affairs, and paramount.
The Christians coming to West Africa made it clear that they objected to a high divorce and separation rate, duolocal conjugal residence, large funerals for lineage elders, independent and mobile women,"worship"(homage) of ancestors and tutelary spirits andcorporate matrilineal descent groups;
They are characterised by matrilineal descent(inheritance and succession) anda political system based upon the confederation of matrilineages and matriclans(corporate descent groups), in an elaborate hierarchy well designed for military success in the rain forest.
Several descent groups- that is,groups which consist of all the descendants, men and women, of a common ancestor- identified mainly in Paumirim, have exercised control over the basic natural resources of certain areas over a long period of time, according to specific rules mutually respected in the development of social relations established among the domestic groups that make up these social units.
In other societies a person is expected to marry their cross-cousin, a woman must marry her father's sister's son anda man must marry his mother's brother's daughter- this is often the case if either a society has a rule of tracing kinship exclusively through patrilineal or matrilineal descent groups as among the Akan people of West Africa.
At this inter-local level, social relations are mediated by the rules of native politics, whose nature varies along a gradient of possibilities that span from greater flexibility in the case of spatial proximity andwhere prople belonging to descent groups that maintain peaceful relations, to greater rigidity as spatial distance increases and the degree of affinity between the different itupÃ1⁄4 involved in the relation diminishes.
The descent group may own land, offices, houses, and gods.
The child, then, of a female slave, would be brought into the matrilineage of a descent group, along with all her offspring through female lines of descent. .
When an important elder or chief dies,his lineage must of course choose a successor from within their own matrilineal descent group.
Matriliny required the subordination of marriage andconjugal duties to loyalty to and participation in the descent group.
The singular case of sororal polygyny he maintained andthe numerous children he had with the two women generated a clearly delimited descent group, several members of which(notably, in the second descending generation) married amongst themselves.
Among these madija peoples, there are the Madija ssaco("people of the traíra fish"), Madija ccorobo("peoples of the fasting fish"), among others, in all, around 76 known types of Madija, andeach eponym characterizes the members of the descent group associated with it.
To avoid pollution, rather as a Jew avoids treif food, a person had a set of proscribed plants and animals according to his ntr category. Many of the items were avoided by more than one(but not every) ntrכ group, for this was a matter of purity rather than descent group identification.