Btsisi Tribe Essay
The Btsisi Tribe
Shameika L. Brown
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Bob Larkin
Ashford University
The kinship group I chose to describe is the Btsisi who are a horticulturalist society, which means they cultivate plants and prepare the soil, horticulturalists differ from foragers in their dependence on domesticated plants for most of their food energy” (Nowak, B., & Laird, L. (2010). For the purposes of this paper I will provide information on the Btsiti tribe kinship and specific examples of how the kinship system impacts their way of life, about the culture itself, as well as, compare their information to my own society.
Kinship is the key or the foundation to social relations in the Btsisi tribe, like foragers, in food producing cultures such as cultivating cultures, social relationships need to cope with a more sedentary …show more content…
(2010). Lineage is another descent group in which is how people trace their lineage by blood or by marriage. For example, if I wanted to know who I was related to on my father and mother side I will have to trace their lineage. Unilineal is another descent group where kinship is identified through one sex only, then there is the Matrilineal and Patrilineal descent groups where in matrilineal descent is traced through the mother’s line and patrilineal descent is traced through the father’s line. “Matrilineal groups occur most frequently in horticultural societies, and this is because of the women's central food–producing role” (Nowak, B., & Laird, L. (2010). Therefore, with that being said the Btsisi tribe is considered matrilineal societies. These different descent groups show how the Btsisi kinship affects and impact their way of life. They cannot marry who they want and there is a level authority given to the descent group that has the
Shameika L. Brown
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Bob Larkin
Ashford University
The kinship group I chose to describe is the Btsisi who are a horticulturalist society, which means they cultivate plants and prepare the soil, horticulturalists differ from foragers in their dependence on domesticated plants for most of their food energy” (Nowak, B., & Laird, L. (2010). For the purposes of this paper I will provide information on the Btsiti tribe kinship and specific examples of how the kinship system impacts their way of life, about the culture itself, as well as, compare their information to my own society.
Kinship is the key or the foundation to social relations in the Btsisi tribe, like foragers, in food producing cultures such as cultivating cultures, social relationships need to cope with a more sedentary …show more content…
(2010). Lineage is another descent group in which is how people trace their lineage by blood or by marriage. For example, if I wanted to know who I was related to on my father and mother side I will have to trace their lineage. Unilineal is another descent group where kinship is identified through one sex only, then there is the Matrilineal and Patrilineal descent groups where in matrilineal descent is traced through the mother’s line and patrilineal descent is traced through the father’s line. “Matrilineal groups occur most frequently in horticultural societies, and this is because of the women's central food–producing role” (Nowak, B., & Laird, L. (2010). Therefore, with that being said the Btsisi tribe is considered matrilineal societies. These different descent groups show how the Btsisi kinship affects and impact their way of life. They cannot marry who they want and there is a level authority given to the descent group that has the