Enhancing the Kinship Anthropology of Scheffler with Diachronic Linguistics and Centricity

McConvell, Patrick

doi:10.22459/fek.04.2018.07

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“…Revelations from respondents indicate that extended family members were responsible for protecting the vulnerable, caring for the poor and the sick, and passing on traditional social values through education. Families, particularly in traditional societies, comprise large networks of people, extending, through varying degrees of relationship over multiple generations and wide geographical areas, and involving reciprocal obligations (Hill, 1999;Merrifield, 1980;Carsten, Janet, 2004;Guest, Kenneh, 2013;McConvell, Patrick, 2013). This was confirmed from the findings whereby respondents felt that cultural values and etiquettes are best transmitted from one generation to the next through a tightly held kinship.…”

Section: The Significance Of Kinship In a Bemba Speech Communitymentioning

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“…The reviewed literature has showed that the concept of kinship could be used as a form of alliance to bind members of wider families together. The literature seemed to indicate that, kin terms, in most African traditional families, as the case is among the Bemba people, carry with them all the expected social obligations demanded of those referred to by such terms and ultimately act to reinforce cultural expectations about how kin should behave toward one another (Siegel, 1996;Just, Peter, Monaghan, John, 2000;Stone, Linda, 2001;Goody, 1963;McConvell, Patrick, 2013).…”

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Social Significance of Kinship in the Bemba Speech Community

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This study investigated the social significance of kinship in a Bemba speech community by examining the concept from the linguistic and anthropological perspectives. It took a qualitative approach, in particular ethnographic research design. This study included family heads, spouses, children, dependents, area councilors, social workers in Mufulira District. In total forty eight (48) participants took part in the study. Family heads, children and dependents among others took part in the study. Two methods of sampling were used in this study: purposive and simple random. Data was collected through interviews, Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and questionnaire. Findings indicate that many factors have certainly strained extended family ties to an extent that many people no longer honor the ideals of traditional family loyalty yet, such cultural ideals are as common to African societies as those of personal autonomy are in Western societies. Literature corroborates with the findings and establishes that the family is one of the key cultural strongholds in a Bemba community just like in many African communities. Unanimously, participants in the study point to the disintegrated social cohesion as one of the factors contributing to the increase in the number of people in need of care and support. There seem to be a general view from participants that initiatives to support the needy should be accompanied with efforts to ascertain their socio-psychological effects on those in need of care and support. Findings further reveal that majority of the people in need of support have relatives who could come to their aid but are unable due to, among other issues, economic hardships. This paper encourages the acceptance and support of extended family system in Zambia owing to its cultural compatibility with the community.

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Section: The Extent To Which Kinship Instils a Sense Of Appreciation ...mentioning

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Social Significance of Kinship in the Bemba Speech Community

2023

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“…Lounsbury and Scheffler compiled an inventory of such rules in various case studies, that operate in some groups and not others, or that apply in different orders. A set of rules formulated by Scheffler () to deal with the range of Australian kinship systems can be adapted to deal with historical change in rules and systems (McConvell in press‐a).…”

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What Is ‘Kariera’? Detecting Systems and Overlap in Australian Kinship Using the AustKin Database

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The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages

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The Oxford Guide to Australian languages is a wide-ranging reference work that provides information about the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. There are chapters covering phonology, morphology, and syntax; language change, typology, and language classification, and language in the social sphere, including sociolinguistics and language variation, child-directed speech, and multilingualism. It describes the contemporary linguistic landscape, including language endangerment and reclamation. It is an up-to-date compendium of knowledge on traditional and contemporary languages, with a particular focus on material which is not covered in the handbooks from the past.

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Enhancing the Kinship Anthropology of Scheffler with Diachronic Linguistics and Centricity

Cited by 90 publications

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Social Significance of Kinship in the Bemba Speech Community

Social Significance of Kinship in the Bemba Speech Community

What Is ‘Kariera’? Detecting Systems and Overlap in Australian Kinship Using the AustKin Database

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