Everything about Omaha Kinship totally explained
Omaha kinship 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 Omaha system is one of the six major kinship systems (
Eskimo,
Hawaiian,
Iroquois,
Crow,
Omaha, and
Sudanese).
Kinship system
In function, the system is extremely similar to the
Crow system. However, whereas Crow groups are
matrilineal, Omaha descent groups are characteristically
patrilineal. In this system relatives are sorted according to their descent and their gender. Ego's father and his brothers are merged together under a single term and a similar pattern is seen for Ego's mother and her sisters. Like most other kinship systems, Omaha kinship distinguishes between Parallel and Cross cousins. While
Parallel cousins are merged with siblings,
Cross cousins are differentiated by generational divisions. On the maternal side Cross cousins are raised a generation (making them Ego's Mother's Brother and Ego's Mother) while those on the paternal side are lowered a generation (making them the generational equivalent of Ego's Children's).
The system is similar to
Iroquois kinship and uses
Bifurcate merging, however, only the Iroquois system uses BM as a label.
Usage
The system is named for the
Omaha, a
Native American tribe from
Nebraska. Currently the Omaha system is in use by the
Dani tribe of
Papua and the
Igbo of
Nigeria.
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