Kinship and Marriage among the Omaha, 1886-1902

Ensor, Bradley E.

doi:10.2307/3773806

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“…Similarly, Ensor (2003, 2011, 2017) outlines how taking a cross-cultural ethnological approach using material correlates—focusing on evidence for changes in resources and production—presents archaeologists with a framework to examine social transformation in prehistory via empirical archaeological interpretation. Peregrine (1996, 2001) asserts that results generated from detailed cross-cultural research may represent an appropriate source for generating statistically valid inferences to identify and examine behavioral trends.…”

Section: Analogy Ethnoarchaeology and The Mca Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Material Correlates Analysis (MCA)

Gantley

Whitehouse

Bogaard

2018

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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Theories developed and validated using ethnographic and historical resources are often difficult to examine using sparse or fragmentary archaeological material. However, a number of statistical techniques make it possible to integrate data from ethnographic, historical, and archaeological resources into a single analytical framework. This article introduces Material Correlates Analysis (MCA)—a new method of filling gaps in the archaeological data using a strategic combination of data collection, multidimensional scaling, principal component analysis, and generalized liner modeling. Generalized liner modeling is a particularly useful tool in formal inferential statistics for comparing a priori classified groups of historical and/or ethnographic (known) cases with archaeological (unknown) ones on the basis of relevant variables. MCA allows us to overcome the inherent material culture limitations regarding data on key variables by using available historical or ethnographic evidence to make statistically testable inferences regarding archaeological data. Using the Modes of Religiosity theory as an example, we demonstrate how major gaps in the evidentiary record can be overcome using the techniques we outline. Specifically, we use the MCA approach to ascertain whether the agricultural transition in southwest Asia was associated with a shift from an imagistic to an increasingly doctrinal mode of religiosity.

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Section: Analogy Ethnoarchaeology and The Mca Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Material Correlates Analysis (MCA)

Gantley

Whitehouse

Bogaard

2018

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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“…So, we should rid ourselves of any notion of moiety exogamy and classificatory cross-cousin marriage. My analysis of Barnes' (1984) data on marriages prior to 1883 indicate that 100 percent of marriages practiced clan exogamy (Ensor 2003). My analyses of the 1886, 1894, and 1904 Bureau of Indian Affairs census rolls demonstrated that 96 percent of the 169 marriages among individuals whose clans were identified adhered to clan exogamy-this was at the outset of allotment policies that over time usually lead to violations of marriage prohibitions (Ensor 2003).…”

Section: Marital Alliancesmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…There are no prescriptions in Crow-Omaha marital alliances. The alliances involve clan proscriptions only (Allen 2012:57-58;Ensor 2002Ensor , 2003Ensor , 2013aFox 1967;Lévi-Strauss 1965). There are at least two rules; both are proscriptions.…”

Section: Marital Alliancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Omaha people in the Late 19 th century adhered to the Omaha marital alliance system (Ensor 2003). To begin, I should note that there is no rule for moiety exogamy among the Omaha proper, whose moieties had cosmological, ceremonial, and gendered themes also represented in their clans' ceremonial themes (Ensor 2002;Fletcher andLa Flesche 1905-1906).…”

Section: Marital Alliancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To begin, I should note that there is no rule for moiety exogamy among the Omaha proper, whose moieties had cosmological, ceremonial, and gendered themes also represented in their clans' ceremonial themes (Ensor 2002;Fletcher andLa Flesche 1905-1906). Marriages were independent of moieties-some marital alliances were with clans in the same moiety and some were with clans in the opposite moiety (Ensor 2002(Ensor , 2003Fletcher andLa Flesche 1905-1906). So, we should rid ourselves of any notion of moiety exogamy and classificatory cross-cousin marriage.…”

Section: Marital Alliancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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