Question

Who studed the structure of kinship system of african tribes?

Answer 1

hi there ,

Kinship eventuated from the primitive and most traditional societies. It has its roots in simple societies which were not so complex. Communities and social bonds are necessary attributes for kinship systems.

The first order involves relations in an elementary family that is ( mother, father, children & relation between them). The second order involves secondary relations which are connected to the first order that is father’s father, sister’s husband, brother’s wife etc. We can progressively connect the relations to third, fourth, fifth order so on and so forth and the kinship orders can be increased by a marriage of the related cognates.

Answer 2

Answer:

• The foundations study of kinship were laid by L.H. Morgan (1871) in his “ System of consanguinity and affinity of the human family”.