Hopi indians- houses belong to women, exclusion of boys from adult male activities is greater than the exclusion of girls from adult female activities. suggests girls are more fully absorbed into the female assemblies than boys into male cohorts-sexually egalitarian society, gendered balanced society
Nuer clan- the largest group of agnates who trace their
descent from a common ancestor and between whom marriage is forbidden and sexual relations considered incestuous.
A cln is a system of lineages and a lineage is a genealogical
segment of a clan.
Nuerlan consists of 20 such clans.
lineage is a group of living agnates, descended from the founder of that particular line.
Lineage system= Clan-maximal lineages-major lineages-minor lineages-minimal lineages
rules of exogamy
Nuer say feuds and quarrels between lineages chiefly led to the their dispersal, two factors other than migration, quarrels intermarriage, since they are a pastoral people they are not bound by economic......

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Title: Faulkenese
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