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This document discusses kinship and how it relates to house-society structures. It covers 1) how kinship systems like nuclear families, clans, and moieties organize social roles and responsibilities, 2) how kinship is expressed through houses, which represent identity, ritual spaces, and inheritance, and 3) the concept of "house-societies" where the house is the primary unit organizing kinship rather than descent or residence patterns. Houses represent enduring social institutions, are named, pass between g

Author
amreena imami
Language
EN