Everything about Hawaiian Kinship totally explained
Hawaiian kinship (also referred to as the
Generational system) is a
kinship system used to define
family. Identified by
Louis Henry Morgan in his
1871 work
Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, the Hawaiian system is one of the six major kinship systems (
Eskimo,
Hawaiian,
Iroquois,
Crow,
Omaha, and
Sudanese).
Kinship system
Within common typologies, the Hawaiian system is the simplest classificatory system of
kinship. In it, differences are distinguished by generation and by gender. There is a parental generation and a generation of children. In this system, Ego refers to all females of his parent's generation as "Mother" and all of the males as "Father". In the generation of children, all brothers and male cousins are referred to as "Brother", all sisters and female cousins as "Sister".
The Hawaiian system is usually associated with
ambilineal descent groups.
Usage
The Hawaiian system is named for the pre-contact kinship system of peoples in the
Hawaiian Islands. Use of the Hawaiian system is now most common in Malayo-Polynesian-speaking areas.
This form of kinship is most common in societies with ambilineal descent groups where economic production and child-rearing are shared.
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