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the significance of the course events take in segmentary systems
Author(s) -
DRESCH PAUL
Publication year - 1986
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.1986.13.2.02a00070
Subject(s) - segmentation , context (archaeology) , epistemology , lineage (genetic) , course (navigation) , action (physics) , sociology , artificial intelligence , geography , computer science , philosophy , biology , archaeology , biochemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , astronomy , gene
Arguments about segmentation in the Middle Eastern context still turn on the presence or absence of solidary groups. Yemeni material is used to show that this is largely irrelevant. Segmentation concerns structural principles that apply to groups and individuals alike, to events that “follow the rules” and to those that contradict them. The principles of segmentation underlie a far wider range of events than those dealt with by segmentary lineage theory. [Middle East, Yemen, segmentation, social structure, forms of action]