dozoku

...In farming, mountain, and fishing villages, they were also called Maki, Make, Matsui, Kabuuchi, Ikke, Kuruwa, etc., and in merchant societies, they were also called Norenuchi. In sociology, ethnology, folklore, and social anthropology, they are called dozokudan (family groups, family associations, family organizations), and in international academic circles, they are known as dozoku, and are distinguished from clans and sibs. The branch family mentioned here is also called makke, and when the terms branch and separate family are used side by side, one refers to a family of relatives and the other to a servant branch (in merchant families in Kansai cities, the separate family always refers to a servant branch, but in villages, the opposite is also true). ...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…農山漁村社会でマキ，マケ，マツイ，カブウチ，イッケ，クルワなどとも呼ばれ，商人社会ではノーレンウチなどとも呼ばれた。社会学，民族学，民俗学，社会人類学によっては同族団(同族集団，同族団体，同族組織)と呼ばれ，国際学界でもdozokuの名でとおり，クランclanやシブsibとは区別されている。ここにいう分家は末家(マッケ)とも呼ばれ，分家，別家と並べて呼ぶときは一方が親族分家，他方が奉公人分家を指す(関西の都市の商家では必ず別家のほうが奉公人分家を指し，ムラではその逆の呼び方もある)。…

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