’bout time, right? right. the first thing — one of the most important things — to remember is that clannishness does NOT just apply to peoples who live in clans (or, like the arabs, lineage-based tribes). a population that is clannish, or exhibits traits of clannishness, does NOT have to be one arranged along clans/tribes. […]
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asabiyyah ii – clannishness and the abbasid caliphate
in my previous post on asabiyyah, i (boldly!) said: “the arab states repeatedly fell apart, not because they ran out of asabiyyah, but because those in charge didn’t manage to hold together their state in the face of all the different asabiyyahs of the various clans/tribes within their states.” pseudoerasmus disagreed with me: “The Abbasid […]
clannishness paradox?
i think that i’m maybe — maybe — starting to notice a paradoxical pattern in clannishness. maybe. time will tell. and the paradox is: on the one hand, we have peoples who behave clannishly generally favoring their close and extended family members (when they actually live amongst them) over the broader society (the commonweal) — […]
mating patterns, family types, and clannishness in twentieth century ireland
and you thought i was finished posting about the irish. nope! that’s why darth is still up there ↑ sipping his guinness! (~_^) however, this will be the second-to-the-last — or penultimate for those of you who like to use fancy, foreign loan words (my oed says it came from the french in the 1600s) […]
top ten list 2013
ok, so it’s not really ten posts but a baker’s dozen — and it’s not even thirteen posts but thirteen “themes” — so sue me! (^_^) this “top ten” list was determined solely by me. ymmv. clannishness – difficult to define, but i know it when i see it: – clannishness defined – clannishness – […]
kinship, the state, and violence
earlier this month, the inestimable peter frost wrote: “Over the past millennium, Western Europeans have created a social environment where the individual is largely free from collective ties of kinship and ethnicity. Because the State has imposed a monopoly on the use of violence, there is less need to rely on kinsmen to safeguard one’s […]
there and back again: shame and guilt in ancient greece
william hamilton wondered if renaissances/enlightenments happened in places roughly 800 years after some hardy altruism genes were introduced by barbarians into panmictic (really outbred) populations. i wonder instead if what happens is that renaissances/enlightenments occur after ca. 500 years or so of outbreeding which results in nepotistic altruism (or clannishness) being reduced or even mostly […]
le parallélo- gramme
i promised myself that i wouldn’t post any more about france until i’d finished reading robb’s The Discovery of France (and some other materials on that nation), but i’m too impatient, so here goes. here from Fréquence et répartition des mariages consanguins en France is a map of consanguineous marriages among catholics in france between […]
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