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Lezgin Clans
Lezgin clans or sykhyls (also tukhums) ''(, [])'' are traditional Lezgin kinship groups sharing self-identified through descent from a common ancestor. Etymology The Lezgin name for clans is ''shykhyl «сихил»'' comes from two Lezgin words ''tsi «цӀи»'' and ''khel'' ''«хел»'' literally “bloodline”. Lezgins also use the term ''tukhum'' ''«тухум»'', it is a term is more general and used by all Dagestani peoples for a tribe or family. The term is used to describe different clan structures for different ethnicities and does not mean the same thing from one ethnicity to the other. History After Russian conquest of the Caucasus The Russian conquest of the Caucasus mainly occurred between 1800 and 1864. The Russian Empire sought to control the region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. South of the mountains was the territory that is modern Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georg ... the Lezgin sykhyls or tukhums has all but vanished. While the aul was, like th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinship
In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. Anthropologist Robin Fox says that the study of kinship is the study of what Human, humans do with these basic facts of lifemating, gestation, Parenting, parenthood, socialization, siblingship etc. Human society is unique, he argues, in that we are "working with the same raw material as exists in the animal world, but [we] can conceptualize and categorize it to serve social ends." These social ends include the socialization of children and the formation of basic economic, political and religious groups. Kinship can refer both to the patterns of social relationships themselves, or it can refer to the study of the patterns of social relationships in one or more human cultures (i.e. kinship studies). Over its history, anthropology has developed a number of related concepts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
