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Tunisian kin ties reconsidered
Author(s) -
LARSON BARBARA K.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1983.10.3.02a00090
Subject(s) - kinship , residence , social organization , lineage (genetic) , genealogy , sociology , interpersonal ties , fictive kinship , state (computer science) , middle east , geography , anthropology , economic geography , ethnology , demography , history , social science , archaeology , biochemistry , chemistry , algorithm , computer science , gene
Households, informal networks, and local state organizations constitute the major forms of social organization in the Tunisian village of al‐Qarya. Analysis of the networks reveals that close bilateral kinship (kindreds), geographic proximity, and patrilocal residence (not patrilineality) best explain the dynamics of intermediate‐level social organization in this village. This leads the author to question the universal applicability of lineage theory to the Middle East and North Africa . [kinship, social organization, Middle East, North Africa, complex societies]