Sentence examples for basis of kinship from inspiring English sources

Somali society has functioned for centuries without a state, on the basis of kinship, customary law and Islam.

Karzai's best asset is that he knows how his country works, with loyalties transacted on the basis of kinship, faith and cash.

Like most other tribes of Plains Indians, the Comanche were organized into autonomous bands, local groups formed on the basis of kinship and other social relationships.

Here Schneider was making an opposition between American cultural perceptions of the "natural" basis of kinship, which he posited lay in blood (genetic) ties, and of the legally enshrined code for conduct that regulated marital ties.

Rather than taking the ideological basis of kinship for granted or assuming it to be of less importance than strategic interests related to status and property, Schneider examined kinship as a cultural system that is based in shared symbols and meanings.

Among Sahrawi refugees, social relations have been established and/or reformulated around camel husbandry on the basis of kinship (e.g. between refugees and nomads) and on Polisario governance (e.g. for access to the liberated territories).

(Ibid., Lecture One, §2) {§6.9} the analysis or, more precisely, quasi-analysis of an entity that is essentially an indivisible unit into several quasi-constituents means placing the entity in several kinship contexts on the basis of a kinship relation, where the unit remains undivided.

The rise of feminist and Marxist scholarship in the 1960s and '70s was among several developments that challenged the basis of earlier kinship scholarship.

However, the recognition of one line of descent and the exclusion of the other provides the basis of a "unilineal" kinship system.

Originally the term referred to the ancestral deity (kami) of a family or clan (uji), blood kinship forming the basis of the spiritual relationship.

For Lévi-Strauss, positive marriage rules combined with the rules of reciprocity as the basis for a general theory of kinship that emphasized exchange as the central principle of kinship and indeed of "man's" break from nature.