Hawaiian kinship

Hawaiian kinship

Hawaiian kinship (also referred to as the Generational system) is a kinship system used to define family. Identified by Louis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work "Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family", the Hawaiian system is one of the six major kinship systems (Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, Omaha, and Sudanese).

Kinship system

Within common typologies, the Hawaiian system is the simplest classificatory system of kinship. In it, differences are distinguished by generation and by gender. There is a parental generation and a generation of children. In this system, Ego refers to all females of his parent's generation as "Mother" and all of the males as "Father". In the generation of children, all brothers and male cousins are referred to as "Brother", all sisters and female cousins as "Sister".

The Hawaiian system is usually associated with ambilineal descent groups.

Usage

The Hawaiian system is named for the pre-contact kinship system of peoples in the Hawaiian Islands. Use of the Hawaiian system is now most common in Malayo-Polynesian-speaking areas.

This form of kinship is most common in societies with ambilineal descent groups where economic production and child-rearing are shared.

ee also

*Family
*Kinship and descent
*Anthropology
*List of anthropologists
*Hawaii

ources

*William Haviland, Cultural Anthropology, Wadsworth Publishing, 2002. ISBN 0-534-27479-X
* [http://anthro.palomar.edu/kinship/ The nature of kinship]
* [http://archnet.asu.edu/archives/educat/anth220/kinship/hawaii.htm Archnet: Hawaiian kinship]


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