Evolution of kinship structures driven by marriage tie and competition.

ABSTRACT: The family unit and kinship structures form the basis of social relationships in indigenous societies. Families constitute a cultural group, a so-called clan, within which marriage is prohibited by the incest taboo. The clan attribution governs the mating preference and descent relationships by certain rules. Such rules form various kinship structures, including generalized exchange, an indirect exchange of brides among more than two clans, and restricted exchange, a direct exchange of brides with the flow of children to different clans. These structures are distributed in different areas and show different cultural consequences. However, it is still unknown how they emerge or what conditions determine different structures. Here, we build a model of communities consisting of lineages and f

SUBMITTER: Itao K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7007516 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature