Primitive Social Organization: An Evolutionary Perspective

aboriginal adaptation affiliation affinal Algonkians Ammassalik Andamanese anthropologists areas aspects Athabaskans Australian band level band society basic become bifurcate-merging brothers cause characteristic chiefdoms clan classification cognatic complexity composite bands conception course cousins criteria cross-cousin culture depopulation descent group descent reckoning discussed distinct ecological economic Ego's egocentric endogamy environment Eskimo evolution evolutionary example exogamy factor familistic father function genealogical hunting hunting-gathering important Indians individual integration kin groups kinds kinship terminology kinship terms lineages males marital residence marriage marriage rule means membership modern moiety natural environment nuclear family origin particular patrilineal patrilocal band pattern persons perspective political population position primate problems rank reciprocal redistribution relationship relatives residence rules residential groups result seems segmentary lineage sense Shoshone significance social structure sociocentric sodalities specific stages status terminology status terms Steward superorganic territorial theory things tion tribal society tribes unilocal uxorilocal virilocal residence Yahgan