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moiety: a standalone construct

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moiety1 CONSTRUCTKinship moietyFOX · DUAL DIVISION

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Anthropology

One of the two halves a society divides into

In anthropology, a moiety is one of two descent groups into which a whole society is divided, so that every member belongs to one half or the other, and the two halves typically intermarry and take on reciprocal ritual and ceremonial duties toward each other. Fox's Kinship and Marriage describes such dual organization as a limiting case of unilineal descent, in which exogamy between the two moieties structures marriage, exchange, and obligation across the community. The referent is a social half of a dually organised society, analysed through descent rules and marriage alliance, and it is unrelated to a fragment of a molecule beyond the root meaning of 'a half'.[1]

Unit
A membership half within a two-part descent system
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Established through descent-rule analysis, marriage and exchange records between the two divisions, and ethnographic kinship mapping

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References

  1. Fox, R. (1983). Kinship and marriage: An anthropological perspective. Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1967) ISBN 9780521278232

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