Omaha kinship
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Omaha kinship is the
Kinship system
In function, the system is extremely similar to the Crow system. But, whereas Crow groups are matrilineal, Omaha descent groups are characteristically patrilineal.
In this system, relatives are sorted according to their descent and their gender. Ego's father and his brothers are merged and addressed by a single term, and a similar pattern is seen for Ego's mother and her sisters. (Marriages take place among people of different gentes or
Like most other kinship systems, Omaha kinship distinguishes between parallel and cross-cousins. While parallel cousins are merged by term and addressed the same as Ego's siblings, cross-cousins are differentiated by generational divisions. On the maternal side, cross-cousins are raised a generation (making them Ego's Mother's Brother and Ego's Mother), while those on the paternal side are lowered a generation (making them the generational equivalent of Ego's Children's).
The system is similar to that of
Usage
The system is named for the
See also
- Family
- Kinship and descent
- Anthropology
- List of anthropologists
Sources and external links
- William Haviland, Cultural Anthropology, Wadsworth Publishing, 2002. ISBN 0-534-27479-X
- The nature of kinship Archived 2004-06-27 at the Wayback Machine
References
- ^ Schwimmer, Brian. "Systematic Kinship Terminologies". Retrieved 24 December 2016.
- ^ "Proto-Indo-European kinship system and patrilineality". 12 October 2020.