SINGAPORE

Singapore

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Discussion3

Singaporean kinship system3

Social Organization6

Political Organization8

Hunting and Gathering9

Pastoralists9

Horticultural10

Emerging Agriculturalists and Agrarian Industrialists10

Singapore

Introduction

Kinship is defined as a relationship between entities sharing a geological origin, through cultural, biological or historical decedents. Kinship is considered as one of the most fundamental and basic principle for categorizing and organizing people and individuals into social groups, genealogy and roles. Family relations can be characterized concretely such as grandfather, mother, and brother or abstractly after degrees of relationship. The degree of relationship is not as same as legal succession or heir ship. Various codes of ethics regard the bond of kinship as building obligations between the related persons stronger than those among the strangers, as in Confucian filial piety.

Discussion

Singaporean kinship system

In the nineteenth century, Singaporean kinship was considered to be one of the most simple kinship systems. The Singaporean people were known for their unique way of denoting relationships. Singaporean kinship as commonly known as the generational system is a kinship system used to identify and classify a family. Singaporean kinship system is amongst one of the six major kinship systems (Singaporean, Crow, Omaha, Iroquois, Eskimo, and Sudanese). Singaporean kinship is the simplest classificatory kinship system. It is comprise of generation of children and parental generations (Carsten, 2000).

In Singaporean kinship system people in the extended and nuclear family are only categorized by genders and generation specifically. In this kinship system, a person called “Ego” refers to all the males of his parents' generation as “father” and all of the females as “Mother”. All male cousins and brothers are referred as “brother” whereas all sisters and female cousins as sister. Therefore the Singaporean kinship system by simplifies the relationships and use only four words to describe all the relations which are father, Mother, Brother and Sister. The Singaporean system is normally linked with ambilineal descendent groups (Carsten, 2000).

Kinship is a relationship that is a privileged social relationship based on the existence, real or imagined, of a lineage common to an alliance or an adoption. One can consider that everyone in each society have relations of kinship. However, it is certain that in some society's parents have different roles in the so-called industrialized societies like Singapore. Singapore's kinship is a dimension of human existence that cannot be separated from the ability to produce and provide representations on the links that constitute it, that is, the relationship cannot be separated from the existence of a language articulated. The conventional view of culture in Singapore abstain traditional representations of culture, which are popular. This view can be found in most Pamphlets and official descriptions of Singapore. Lowest rates are the idea of a traditional culture is not so important (Barnard and Good, 1984). Recently in Singapore have developed many different aspects of culture, and although they are found in the official presentation does not, they are exciting, both for tourists and Singaporeans to discover.

The Singaporean kinship system is roughly found in one third of all the societies throughout the globe. In ambilineal group child rearing and production activities ...