clan

Japanese: clan
clan

…Although the Japanese word 'clan' is often used as the equivalent of the English word 'clan', there are many synonyms in the English-speaking world, as described below, and clan is not the only term used to indicate a distinctive social organization. The word clan originally comes from the Gaelic word clann, and originally meant what people in the Scottish Highlands call 'a non-exogamy, bilateral group of descent based on a household unit.' …

From [Mandrill]

…When males grow up, they leave the monogamous group they were born into and create their own monogamous group by taking young females from other monogamous groups and raising them, or by stealing adult females. In recent years, it has been reported that bands are divided into several sub-organizations called clans, that males belonging to the same clan act together relatively frequently, that it is mainly females that move between clans and bands, and that the matriarchal social structure seen in other species of Cercopithecidae is not observed. Baboons [Takashi Furuichi]. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "clan" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…〈氏族〉という日本語の多くは英語にいう〈クランclan〉に相当する用語として用いられているが,以下に述べるように英語圏にあっても類義語が数多くあり,clanだけが特徴的な社会組織を示す用語として用いられてきたわけではない。clanとは元来ゲール語のclannに由来する言葉であり,原意としてはスコットランド高地の人々がいうところの,〈世帯を単位とした非外婚的な双系出自集団〉を意味するものであった。…

【マントヒヒ】より

…雄は成長すると自分の生まれた単雄集団を出て,他の単雄集団から子どもの雌を連れ出して育てたり,おとなの雌を奪ったりして自分の単雄集団をつくる。 近年,バンドがいくつかのクランclanと呼ばれる下部組織に分かれ,同一クランに属する雄どうしが比較的頻繁に行動をともにすることや,クランやバンドを超えて移籍するのが主として雌であり,他のオナガザル科の種に見られるような母系的社会構造が見られないことなどが報告されている。ヒヒ【古市 剛史】。…

※「clan」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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