A Problem in Malayo‐Polynesian Social Organization<sup>2</sup>

Goodenough, Ward H.

doi:10.1525/aa.1955.57.1.02a00090

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“…Firstly, in a number of Austronesian societies, residence itself determines kin group membership e.g. Ifugao, Kiribati (Goodenough 1955). Secondly, genetic patterns will be mainly influenced by social norms regarding dispersal, rather than norms of association and inheritance.…”

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Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies

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The nature of social life in human prehistory is elusive, yet knowing how kinship systems evolve is critical for understanding population history and cultural diversity. Post-marital residence rules specify sexspecific dispersal and kin association, influencing the pattern of genetic markers across populations. Cultural phylogenetics allows us to practise 'virtual archaeology' on these aspects of social life that leave no trace in the archaeological record. Here we show that early Austronesian societies practised matrilocal post-marital residence. Using a Markov-chain Monte Carlo comparative method implemented in a Bayesian phylogenetic framework, we estimated the type of residence at each ancestral node in a sample of Austronesian language trees spanning 135 Pacific societies. Matrilocal residence has been hypothesized for proto-Oceanic society (ca 3500 BP), but we find strong evidence that matrilocality was predominant in earlier Austronesian societies ca 5000-4500 BP, at the root of the language family and its early branches. Our results illuminate the divergent patterns of mtDNA and Y-chromosome markers seen in the Pacific. The analysis of present-day cross-cultural data in this way allows us to directly address cultural evolutionary and life-history processes in prehistory.

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Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies

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“…as a conceptual entity [cf. Freedman 1961;Goodenough 1955]. Just to illustrate this point, we can quote Appell's observation on the Rungus of Borneo: descent or kinship.…”

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Stuchlik¹

2014

Historická Sociologie

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Abstract:In the first part of this paper I intend to argue that anthropologists have a predominantly causal conception of explanation and that the only feasible way to avoid this is to apply consistently the assumption of goal-orientation of behaviour, that is to hold what could broadly be called a teleological conception of explanation -a view that developments are due to the purpose or design that is served by them. Further on I will try to show that groups and norms do not exist and act independently of people. They have no existence as "things" apart from forming a part of the relevant stock of knowledge of the members of society. They can be brought to bear on actions only by people invoking them. Thus we have to make a sharp distinction between the conceptual or notional level of phenomena, and the transactional or processual level, sometimes known as cultural and social respectively.

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“…Under norm al circumstances, the Nuaulu restrict the use of the word sipate to outside-imposed boundaries, such as between the areas of jurisdiction of the Muslim villages of Sepa and Tamilau. 9 In a rejoinder to Goodenough (1955), Frake (1956: 171) has interpreted the evidence for some groups of swidden agriculturalists in this part of Malayo-Polynesia as indicating that rights in crops and not land are emphasized. While the Nuaulu data suggests that something like this may have operated in the past (partly by virtue of a heavy reliance upon hunting and gathering), the present situation represents a mixture of rights in crops and rights in land, partly related to the level at which access to the resource is denied.…”

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Nuaulu Settlement and Ecology

Ellen¹

1978

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A Problem in Malayo‐Polynesian Social Organization²

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Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies

Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies

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