Category: Kinship
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Kin and Caliber Part 1: A Kinship Primer
This is the first part of a series of kinship essays that will turn into a book called Kin & Caliber. Table of Contents Why Kinship? What Is Kinship? Blood from a Stone: The First Kinship Local Totemism Matrilineal Descent Matrilocal Marriage Patrilineal Descent Patrilocal Marriage and the City Big Man Theory of Origin Warfare…
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American Kinship 101
I came across a meme the other day where a right-wing troll asked why left-wing people accept various anti-natalist, anti-nationalist (and presumably anti-white) tenets. In the average person, issues like abortion and immigration are functions of one’s kinship group that holds certain tenets to be good and true. Those functions will shift over time (just…
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Grave Sites as the First Chinese Cities
Fortified cities, and the entire social structure, in China might have begun with burial mounds. Whereas there are many mentions in the Li Ji and other documents that concubines, wives, and slaves were killed at the funerals of dignitaries and emperors, the Han Dynasty mostly abolished this. Instead, paper or straw figurines were buried in…
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Abram, the Last Matriarch
In Genesis 16 there’s a fragment that caught my attention, which might support the hypothesis that Abram came from a matrilineal society in the middle east. His wife, who is his half-sister Sarai, is marriageable because they have different mothers. Different mothers means different clans and this is therefore a legal union. Marrying Sarai was…