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      ByMeyer Fortes
      BookThe Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1945
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 1
      eBook ISBN 9780429490231
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      ABSTRACT

      This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book deals with the constitution and interrelations of the corporate groupings found in Tale society. But this is one major aspect of Tale social structure. There is another major aspect of no less importance, the system of interpersonal social bonds that constitutes the Kinship System in the strict sense. The well-worn simile of the warp and the woof is apposite here. We can think of the lineage and clan organization as the warp of the social fabric of the Tallensi. Kinship ties grow directly out of the biological, psychological, and social relations of men, women, and children in the domestic nucleus of Tale social life, the agnatic joint family. Unlike lineage ties, they involve the equal and parallel recognition of descent through both parents; and because of this bilateral criterion of social identification in kinship relations, they cut across the lineage structure.

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