Essay On Gebusi Kinship

When looking at the Gebusi kinship there are some similarities to my own kinship. For example the Gebusi clan membership is passed down through the male line. In my kinship it is also passed through the male line. After one member of my kinship gets married they take the last name of the husband. In the Gebusi kinship not only is the line trace through the males after the females are married they become part of their husbands clan now and are no longer apart of their original clan. A difference that the Gebusi kinship have from my own kinship is I call mine a family while the Gebusi like to call their kinship clan or lineage. The system of kinship that I use is bilateral descent. Bilateral descent is a descent group formed by people who believe they are related to each other by connections made equally through their mothers and fathers. In any bilateral society, the kindred minimally includes parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and first cousins. The kinship the
One example is 50% of the tribe go through what is called a sister exchange. What this means is if I had a brother of my own in my clan and wanted to marry a guy from a different clan my brother would have to marry the guys sister. Hence the name sister exchange. The two couples will typically live together as a joint family, and such family units tend to be strong and cooperative. In my culture we do not have sister exchange. Instead there are no rules when it comes to marriage in my family. Whoever the member of my family falls in love with he/she can marry them. Gebusi find their marriage partners within their village or another village within an hours walk of the main settlement. Usually don't travel too far to find their marriage partner. In my family I have relatives who have married people from around the world so distance isn’t something were concerned or think about when it comes to picking our marriage