Author/Editor		Šterk, K
Title		Kaj nas o sorodstvenih sistemih uči socialna antropologija
Translated title		The systems of kinship: an exercise in social anthropology
Type		članek
Source		Anthropos
Vol. and No.		Letnik 27, št. 1-2
Publication year		1995
Volume		str. 65-76
Language		slo
Abstract		The article The Systems of Kinship: An Exercise in Social Anthropology, has no attempts to be ambitious, presenting a mere overview of the staring points of some anthropological well established approaches and theories of kinship as the fundamentals of social organization of the so called primitive societies. In the beginning, the article deals with the nature of the disciplinary approach within which kinship is defined as typified social behaviour. After evaluating the methodological standpoints, the article outlines basic line of arguments of the two the most important theories of the kinship systems - theory of descent and alliance theory. The first one is centered in consanguinity and is from the view of subsequent analysis, a closed system. The alliance theory approach demonstrates an incompetence of formation of kinship structure merely on the basis of biological family. A kinship structure namely always implys a marriage union formed at the beginning. In accordance with this approach, the concepts, which are a prerequisite of comprehension of kinship system thus defined, are being presented. Those concepts are: family, marriage, atom of kinship, and last but not least, rules of exogamy and the prohibiton of incest. The article concludes with an assessment of the kinship systems within the more general frame of social antropology, wherein they represent a series of structurally discontinuous, yet associated entities. firstly, they represent a sum of biological and social facts, and secondly, on the utterly different level they stand for a form of cultural system, and, when referring to the primitive societies, they also represent the fundamental network of meanings.
Descriptors		ANTHROPOLOGY FAMILY INCEST