On the Irrelevance of the Segmentary Lineage Model in the Moroccan Rif

In attempting to analyze the precolonial Moroccan Rif in terms of the segmentary lineage model, David Hart overlooked the fact that violence in this region typically involved brothers and the sons of brothers in competition for inherited land, which was a commodity controlled by individuals, not lin...

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Published inAmerican anthropologist Vol. 91; no. 2; pp. 386 - 400
Main Author Munson, Henry
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK American Anthropological Association 01.06.1989
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects
Agricultural land
Anthropology
Arable land
Brothers
Economics
Ethnology
Family. Family relations
Fathers
Genealogy
Highlands
Lineage
Morocco
Political anthropology
Social conditions & trends
Social structure and social relations
Social structures
Sons
Tribal land
Villages
Morocco
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Summary:In attempting to analyze the precolonial Moroccan Rif in terms of the segmentary lineage model, David Hart overlooked the fact that violence in this region typically involved brothers and the sons of brothers in competition for inherited land, which was a commodity controlled by individuals, not lineages. What Hart depicted as a segmentary lineage system was actually a network of factions that cut across genealogical lines. Moreover, the political impact of the Moroccan state on the precolonial Rif was far more important than Hart suggested.
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ISSN:0002-7294
1548-1433
DOI:10.1525/aa.1989.91.2.02a00070