User:ZlangePSTCC/Iroquois kinship
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[edit]Kinship system
[edit]"Iroquois tradition had the lineage of the clan or tribe traced through the mother. However, the amount of power women held in the tribe decreased with time due to the American revolution." (Lappas, Thomas). The system has both classificatory and descriptive terms. In addition to gender and generation, Iroquois kinship also distinguishes 'same-sex' and 'cross-sex' parental siblings: the brothers of Ego's (the subject from whose perspective the kinship is based) father, and the sisters of Ego's mother, are referred to by the same parental kinship terms used for Ego's Father and Mother. The sisters of Ego's father, and the brothers of Ego's mother, on the other hand, are referred to by non-parental kinship terms, commonly translated into English as "Aunt" and "Uncle".
The children of one's parents' same-sex siblings, i.e. parallel cousins, are referred to by sibling kinship terms. The children of Aunts or Uncles, i.e. cross cousins, are not considered siblings, and are referred to by kinship terms commonly translated into English as "cousin". In some systems, the kinship terms applied to cross-cousins are the same as those applied to brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, due to preferential marriage practices (see below).
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Lappas, Thomas. ""for God and Home and Native Land": The Haudenosaunee and the Women's Christian Temperance Union, 1884–1921." Journal of Women's History 29.2 (2017): 62-85. ProQuest. Web. 28 Feb. 2022.
Starna, William A. "Lewis H. Morgan on Iroquois Material Culture." The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, winter 1996, pp. 137+. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A18832341/AONE?u=tel_a_pstcc&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=18e8d6c0. Accessed 1 Mar. 2022.