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 ### Meyer Fortes and the axiom of amity ### ### Meyer Fortes and the axiom of amity ###
  
-1. Two types of social relationships: amity and strangerhood+- Two types of social relationships: [[:Meyer Fortes|amity]] and strangerhood
    - Amity consists of prescriptive altruism    - Amity consists of prescriptive altruism
    - Strangerhood means people can be individually self-interested.     - Strangerhood means people can be individually self-interested. 
-2. A return to Henry Maine's theory: status and contract +- A return to Henry Maine's theory: status and contract 
-   - Except without the evolutionary thinking. +   - Except without the evolutionary thinking.
    - It starts with the 'familial domain'. This is also called the domestic sphere.    - It starts with the 'familial domain'. This is also called the domestic sphere.
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 ### The segmentary type of society ### ### The segmentary type of society ###
  
-1. What creates order? What is the law?  +- What creates order? What is the law? The principle of unilineal descent from a single ancestor 
-   * The principle of unilineal descent from a single ancestor +  * Creates exclusive groups 
-     - Creates exclusive groups +  * Subdivides all people in society into groups 
-     - Subdivides all people in society into groups +  * Sets limits on who is in society and who is out 
-     - Sets limits on who is in society and who is out +- Example: Auhelawa. Matrilineal groups 
- +  * Landowning 
-2. Example: Auhelawa. Matrilineal groups +  * Marriage 
-   * Landowning +  * Villages 
-   * Marriage +- Unilineal descent groups (UDGs) are corporations 
-   * Villages +   * Members come together to cooperate for a common purpose.
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-3. UDGs are corporations  +
-   * Members come together to cooperate for a common purpose+
    * The common purpose is more important than self-interest.    * The common purpose is more important than self-interest.
    * They act as one person. From the point of view of outsiders, all people in one UDG are the same, interchangeable.    * They act as one person. From the point of view of outsiders, all people in one UDG are the same, interchangeable.
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 ### There are two holes in this theory ### ### There are two holes in this theory ###
  
-1. Segment = UDG +  * Segment = UDG 
-2. Filiation is conflated with descent. +  * Filiation is conflated with descent. 
-3. Example: Ghost marriage +  * Example: Ghost marriage
  
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