Agnatia

Agnate ties, a set of human blood ties, characterized by a common origin and unity of basic rights and responsibilities (tribal community). Like any community, agnate society is divided into “us” and “strangers”.

The idea of ​​kinship ties (agnateness), belonging to some Indo-European peoples, has survived to this day. In modern Russian dialects, the concept of “godfather” (Old Russian krevyati, Bulgarian kravnika, Tslav. kroveyan, -it (to r-), Serbian karmak, krmash, Croatian krmats, Czech krmeny, Pol. krewny – Krevny), “goddaughter” mean their agnates in the ascending line. These words are devoid of signs that characterize belonging to more distant branches of consanguinity and identical terms that are used by most peoples of the world. Over the centuries, peoples, as a rule, change the original ideas about blood and introduced relatives, realizing that consanguinity has the highest significance as a universal law of life in human society. Therefore, we are talking not only about the immediate mutual position of individuals, but also about social relations in general. They appear in connection with the emergence of the first large social formations: primitive clans, chiefdoms, tribal unions, and so on. Many primitive peoples even now retain the original type of agnatic kinship, which has not changed to the present day, when it has outlived its usefulness among linguists and should obviously be recognized as universal.

Linguists have always been the first analysts of the universal term “kinship” for linguistics, and they were immediately followed by attempts by representatives of historical science to study the more specific term “kinship,” meaning one of the types of consanguinity, along with classifications of kinship relationships without determining the degree of closeness of relatives . Only recently has the need to adopt the term kinship been emphasized, which is one of those phenomena for which there is no uniform representation in other languages. Here, specific examples of precisely these types of kinship are most important. Apparently, there is reason to believe that the concept of agnacy does not fundamentally change in the process of the evolution of social consciousness, despite the change in the way of dividing the world into friends and foes, observed in various historical eras of human history.

In the social sciences, the problem of agnatic connections should become the object of a special study, combining the achievements of linguistics, historical and cultural anthropology, ethnography, social demography and sociology, i.e. all sciences