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Prescriptive Marriage Systems, Classificatory Kinship Systems, and Group Theory
Posted: Posted March 27thEdited May 21st by chiarizio
| In the 1960s, and perhaps a decade or some few decades before and/or after, several prominent and well-respected sociologists and social-and-cultural anthropologists, thought that a largish minority of the world’s cultures had a certain kind of very systematic kinship-and-marriage Systems, which I will describe (to the best of my layman’s understanding) in this thread.
Beginning in the 1990s (maybe before, but not in famous published peer-refereed journal articles by established anthropologists), some field-researchers began to cast doubt on the real-life precision with which various cultures actually adhered to their rules.
I’ll talk first about Classificatory Kinship Systems in general, then concentrate on the subset of them which interests me most (at least for purposes of this thread).
Then I’ll talk about Preferential and Prescriptive and Proscriptive Marriage Systems, then concentrate on the Prescriptive Marriage Systems, which interest me most (for purposes of this thread).
Then I’ll talk about several real-life, and a few fictional, Prescriptive Marriage Systems, and try to relate them to the theory of Mathematical Groups.
I’ll try to do that in my first eleven or so replies to my own thread-originating post. I’ll try to title the posts appropriately.
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