segmentation in Chinese lineages: a view through written genealogies1
- 1 February 1976
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Ethnologist
- Vol. 3 (1) , 1-16
- https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1976.3.1.02a00010
Abstract
Written genealogies are used as a means of ascertaining how members of Chinese lineages regard the growth and segmentation of their own social groups. The genealogies reveal a concern, not with corporate and joint estates—the basis of segmentation in Chinese lineages according to Maurice Freedman's model—but with change in residence resulting from the formation of new settlements. The significance of this fact for understanding the indigenous view of both lineage growth and the connection between common residence and common descent is discussed.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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