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The Keresan Bridge

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Author	Fox, Robin
Copyright Year	2021
Description	This book is concerned with a rather narrow anthropological problem. It can be summed up as the problem of the Keresan Bridge (see Map I). Eggan divided the Pueblos into two types, the 'Western', characterized by a kinship structure 'based on the matrilineal lineage and household', and the 'Eastern', which lacked this as a 'basic' feature. The linguistic group known as the Keresans straddles the two types, having two Pueblos in the west and five in the east. The Eastern Keresans have a matrilineal kinship system, but it is not as dominant in their total social system as it is in the west. Eggan offers an interpretation of this situation - 'strong' matrilineal organization in the West and 'weak' or nonexistent in the East - in historical and adaptational terms. The test of this theory lies essentially in a proper understanding of the Eastern Keresan kinship system and its place in their social structure. The question what is a proper understanding of a kinship system, and how to discover the 'true' workings of such a system is anything but a parochial one. I hope that this discussion of a purely ethnological problem may also make some contribution in this wider theoretical field. Book Name: The Keresan Bridge
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DOI	10.4324/9781003135265-2
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2021-01-07
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: The Keresan Bridge History Structure Bridge Eastern Matrilineal Pueblos Adaptational Kinship System Keresan
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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