Naven a Survey of the Problems Suggested By a Composite Picture of the Culture
Naven a Survey of the Problems Suggested By a Composite Picture of the Culture
Gregory Bateson
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Similarly, Ay i initiated Bx 2, etc. In course of time, Ax i will die off and a new generation Ax 7 will appear. The moiety B will then become senior to A and their seniority will be recognised when they assert their strength violently in a brawl. By 4 will then begin initiating Ax 5. In this beautiful system the groups i, 3, 5 are united, and opposed to 2, 4, 6, which alternate with them and are always 246 The Eidos of latmiil Culture their junior by about half a generation. Thus the pattern o...f thought which appeared as an alternation of generations in the patrilineal clan here appears as an alternation of half- generation groups which are staggered like the spokes of a wheel. Throughout the system each grade is spoken of as the "elder brother" of the grade next below. Thus i is elder brother of 2, and 2 of 3, etc. This usage links up with the third context in which the same patterning occurs. In large families in which there is a long series of brothers, the same sort of alternation is expected.
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