Characteristics of the Lineage/Kinship M.O.P

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1) The society is organized into largely self-sufficient economic units based on
social/family relationships. These units use their household labour and land to
produce subsistence food requirements and commodities for exchange. The
household includes the nucleus family, the extended family and other kin
relations. These micro-families pool their labour power in the production
process.
2) Production is mainly geared for the household’s sustenance through direct
consumption and exchange.
3) Land as a factor of production is owned communally (by the entire
community) but cultivated at the household/family unit level. The factors of
production are controlled by elders whose power is based on seniority within
the lineage system. Seniority is central in the control of labour, production and
reproduction. Elders do not possess land, they control or determine
accessibility to land.
4) The elders possess the ritual power, knowledge and determine age-sets. They
control accessibility to women through marriages because the youth can only
marry with their permission. It is the elders who possess and control economic
wealth in the form of livestock and dowry. They give dowry for marriage.
5) The elders control food distribution outside the nucleus family units. This
gives them powers over exchange and accumulation e.g. raids – for livestock –
and the sharing of the captured livestock etc.
6) The elders seniority is based on socio-economic relations e.g.
a) Genealogy
b) Symbolic political position
c) Order of migration and settlement
d) Rights of occupation
e) The control of a strategic group of dependants e.g. conquered warrior
groups.

Titany answered the question on December 8, 2021 at 07:10

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