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Sociology of Kinship

Notes In Ho tribe, Killi is an exogamous family. There number is more than fifty. In this way, Uranv,
Munda and Kharia lineage are also exogamous and totemic. Rai has told about origin of Uranv
lineage in reference of the process of addition and subtraction. Bheel, Kurmi, Kumar and Bhu-
meej are also divided in exogamous lineages. The knowledge of the tradition of Moiety is got in
Muria, Maria and other fragments of great Gond tribe.
Classification in two endogamous of Toda tribe is important in itself because from this only
the social organisation is developed which is called dual organisation. These both are called
biparttis Tarthoral and Teyaliol. In this, the first is major in comparison to second. These both
are divided into paternity and maternity lineages. The discussion about these origin of bipartitis
are make carliev also.
Rai has told about the Karias of Mayurbhanj that although nothing is popular in this at present
but they must be popular in past—which are ended probably as their language became extinct.
In some hilly region, it is unclear conception of Kharias that all hilly kharias are members of
Naga gotra. Rai had seen, the tradition of unclear totemic relation in these with Saluk (bird) , Sal
(fish), Ashok (flower), Saroo (xantho chynous), Balia (fish) and Nag (Snake). These hilly Kharias
of Mayurbhanj use their totemic names even today. These do eat them and even never use it or
never harm it. Nevertheless, these totemis never decided lineage exogamy in these. Probably it
is due to the end of totemism and the root lineage organisation and recently they have adopted
totemic name from their neighbour tribes. The rowd killy used for ineage by Ho. Munda and
Santhal is adopted by Kharias without any common lineage organisation. Prinaply, Kharias are
lineage exogamous but in reality they do not follow it as tool above. This is such example which
enunciates the historical developmental suspicion of the adoption of culutural facters of neigh-
bour cultural group by a culture.

Self Assessment
Fill in the blanks:

1. Including Kumar, Chenchu and Bhirhor like backwards tribes, lineage is found in almost
all the _______ of India.
2. In dhelaki kharias, ten _______ totemic lineages are found.
3. According to Hopikuns, development of faith towards the _______ providing food is obvious.

Inheritance
In modern family, kinship is developed with both origin of mother and father. Such families
are called bilateral groups. Otherwise, it also true that in such situations both the parties are not
give equal importance. For example, it is not necessary that the name of clan of mother of her
unmarried period is joined with the progeny. As it is described in this book somewhere else, in
primitive societies other types of inheritance was popular. Such site is also found which totally
ignore a linearity of the two. These are called unilateral group. Opposite to it dual inheritance
and bilinear kinship group are also found. This second type of group (bilinear) is constructed
with those people who are relatd to both the mother and father linearities. In dual inheritance,
only some kins represent both the linearities are included.
Persons who are progeny of same ancestus, they are called Sapinda or unisourced brothers. If
the common ancestors are males them they are called paternal brother or father linear kins and
it the common ancestors are females than these are called maternal kins or mother linears.
The kins who are directly related to inheritance are called unilinear kins or unibranched kins
and they who get saperated as a branch from the main group like uncles and cousins, nephew,
niece etc are called diverse branched kins.

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