From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Wed 12 Jul 2000 - 03:29:38 EEST
David Dunham asserts, amid discussion of clans and bloodlines:
> To further muddle things, there are also households. When we played,
> households were granted certain fields and grazing rights. (A
> household is not necessarily the same as a bloodline.) And I have
> vague recollection of legal cases where one household accused another
> of trampling on its rights.
A household being? The only concrete case I can think of which
describes such a thing is the Hall/Brooke/et al campaign, which
IIRC has them as (a sort of) bloodline. While I certainly think
bloodline organisation/terminology/definition (etc, etc) varies
significantly, it's not clear to me that one would have a distinct
role for a clan, a bloodline, a household _and_ a stead, at
different 'vertical levels'.
Or are you using household identically with (the people of a) stead?
Cheers,
Alex.
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