Oh Zap! Nursing! See, I forget these kinds of things and you're exactly right.
Mortality from childbirth will consistently outstrip death by misadventure in my construction - but death and maiming through warfare will be higher too. I'm only drawing an idealized version here - so I think a lot of these groups will just have a single dude and probably a couple of old ladies as well - for him to have to deal with. I want factions within families and for families to have their own drama - but I want the whole milieu to be kind of recognizable as well. The tyrranical old man in charge of the family is a kind of idea that flows out of the western tradition but which probably not too many people ever experience anymore.
Probably... Probably wetnursing and etc... would be the demesne of the 'breeding stock' of the family - with those who are most adept rolling into the teacher/educator/matchmaker role going forward - and those who are most inclined to remain - remaining.
Really I think I'd use that relationship between the communal 1st & 2nd cousin rearing organization to evolve family factions based on the mother/grandmother/grandfather relationships. And because those are kind of the tenuous bonds - not mandated by requirements or requisite for existence - they'll be the most sacred too.
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Date: 2011-04-26 11:55 pm (UTC)Mortality from childbirth will consistently outstrip death by misadventure in my construction - but death and maiming through warfare will be higher too. I'm only drawing an idealized version here - so I think a lot of these groups will just have a single dude and probably a couple of old ladies as well - for him to have to deal with. I want factions within families and for families to have their own drama - but I want the whole milieu to be kind of recognizable as well. The tyrranical old man in charge of the family is a kind of idea that flows out of the western tradition but which probably not too many people ever experience anymore.
Probably... Probably wetnursing and etc... would be the demesne of the 'breeding stock' of the family - with those who are most adept rolling into the teacher/educator/matchmaker role going forward - and those who are most inclined to remain - remaining.
Really I think I'd use that relationship between the communal 1st & 2nd cousin rearing organization to evolve family factions based on the mother/grandmother/grandfather relationships. And because those are kind of the tenuous bonds - not mandated by requirements or requisite for existence - they'll be the most sacred too.