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 +## Alternative classrooms ## 
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 +{{:blackburn.jpg|Blackburn Lecture Theatre}}
  
 ## A new kind of lecture ##  ## A new kind of lecture ## 
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 **Descent**: A principle of kin reckoning, especially for purposes of determining group membership. People who are related by common descent have lineal ancestors in common.  **Descent**: A principle of kin reckoning, especially for purposes of determining group membership. People who are related by common descent have lineal ancestors in common. 
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 +## Kiriwina ##
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 +The peoples of Kiriwina, Kitava and the other Trobriand Islands belong to //dala//, a group based on **matrilineal** descent.
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 +A person in this society is a member of their mother's dala automatically. People of one dala are related to each other through women, to common female ancestors, who are descended from one woman. This woman emerged from the earth ages ago. Each dala founder came out of the ground in a different place. 
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 ## Two ideas, two perspectives ## ## Two ideas, two perspectives ##
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 We should approach kinship systems as total systems. Societies with classificatory systems of terminology tend to based on the //gens//. Kinship is society! We should approach kinship systems as total systems. Societies with classificatory systems of terminology tend to based on the //gens//. Kinship is society!
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 +## The axiom of amity ##
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 +**Meyer Fortes**: 
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 +> Kinship concepts, institutions, and relations classify, identify, and categorize persons and groups. ... [T]his is associated with rules of conduct whose efficacy comes, in the last resort, from a general principle of kinship morality that is rooted in the familial domain and is assumed everywhere to be axiomatically binding. This is the rule of prescriptive altruism which I have referred to as the principle of kinship amity and which Hiatt calls the ethic of generosity. (Fortes 2004 [1969]: 231-232) 
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 +Fortes, Meyer. 2004 [1969]. Kinship and the Social Order: The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan. London: Routledge.
  
 Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1930. “17. Kinship.” Man 30: 19–29. doi:10.2307/2789869. Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1930. “17. Kinship.” Man 30: 19–29. doi:10.2307/2789869.
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