essay
Kinship and contiguity: variation in social alignments among the Semporna Bajau Laut
Societies of Borneo : explorations in the theory of cognatic social structure • (6) • Published In 1976 • Pages: 40-65
By: Sather, Clifford.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a discussion of how Sama-Bajau household heads establish enduring economic and political relations with other households and groups by drawing on both residence and cognatic ties as complementary principles of social organization. This strategy arises primarily from the recurrent movement of households and boat-dwelling groups between dispersal into fishing crews at sea to aggregation in a boathouse village at the shoreline. The presentation highlights a range of economic settings and cultural obligations where both neighborhood and kinship serve as important principles behind mutual aid and resource sharing. In emphasizing the complementarity of kinship and locality, the author criticizes earlier anthropologists for regarding them as separate principles of social organization.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Kin relationships
- Kindreds and ramages
- Bilineal kin groups
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- Family relationships
- Household
- Extended families
- Labor supply and employment
- Mutual aid
- Gift giving
- Organized ceremonial
- Visiting and hospitality
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Sama-Bajau
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1965; 1974
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1964-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Semporna district, Sabah, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Clifford A. Sather
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76378136
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bajau (Southeast Asian people)