ABSTRACT
This chapter determines the interpersonal ties. It argues that the internal system includes the mutual relationships between interaction, sentiment, and activity as these relationships elaborate themselves upon those of the external system and then react upon the external system. The chapter examines the system of interpersonal relations revealed by Raymond Firths description of Tikopia kinship. It shows that in the external system of Tikopia society, in activities such as fishing and gardening, brothers from early childhood interact frequently with one another. The chapter deals with the family and generalizes for all social groups. It also argues that the relationship between father and son in Tikopia is much like that between superior and subordinate everywhere. The chapter also examines the ways in which modem American society contrasts most greatly with primitive society. The emotional relationship was founded on prolonged and shared activities. In the old-fashioned family, the activities carried on were the ones approved in the norms of the whole society.
