A Family Organization of Bir-Bavik Type.
Avdo Karatas.
International Journal of Kurdish Studies, 2018, 4 (2), pp. 490–506.

The a siret (tribe, clan) is usually examined as the main structure in studies on Kurds on traditional social structures. However, it is not known how the tribe arised among the Kurds. The a siret is examined as a series of structures starting from the family and shaped on the lineage. The family is the most important social competent authority of Kurdish society and is the only one which generation and regeneration constructions such as patriarchy and lineage-ideology. Therefore, the family is the main dynamic that forms the traditional social structure at the same time. However, when the names of the layers of tribal starting from family are examined, it is revealed that the layers of & quot;mal, bavik, tire and hoz" are in Kurdish, and the following "sulale, qabile, taifa and asiret" are not. This suggests that the Kurdish traditional social structure was originally up to the dynasty, and that subsequent structures (which are usually political associations) were.. [1]
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