Editing Ethnography (section)

===Genealogical method===
The '''genealogical method''' investigates links of [[kinship]] determined by [[marriage]] and [[Cultural heritage|descent]]. The method owes its origin from the book of British ethnographer [[W. H. R. Rivers]] titled "Kinship and Social Organisation" in 1911.<ref>''Windows on Humanity'' by Conrad Phillip Kottak. Chapter 2, page 38.</ref>  [[Genealogy]] or kinship commonly plays a crucial role in the structure of non-industrial societies, determining both social relations and group relationship to the past.  Marriage, for example, is frequently pivotal in determining military alliances between [[village]]s, [[clan]]s or [[ethnic groups]].

In the field of [[epistemology]] the term is used to characterize the [[philosophy|philosophical]] method employed by such writers as [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] and [[Michel Foucault]].