#lineage structure

[social-anther]

Conceptualized as a kind of inverse to lineal holism, the workings of cognatic kinship seemed incapable of yielding a model of a whole.

Marilyn Strathern, Reproducing the Future (1992)

[social-anther]

Lineage genealogies are not historically accurate. But they can be understood if they are seen to be the conceptualization of the existing lineage structure viewed as continuing through time and therefore projected backward as pseudo-history.

Meyer Fortes, “Structure of Unilineal Descent Groups” (1953)