dual organization

is a social organization which divides into two halves which are at once rivals as well as partners in marriage exchange. The society is dialectically thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.

dual organizations: 'His work in South America is his best known. Early on he showed there are 'dual organizations' throughout Amazon rainforest cultures, and these 'dual organizations' represent opposites and their synthesis. For instance, Gê tribes of the Amazon were found to divide their villages into two halves, which were rivals... however, the members of opposite halves married each other. This illustrated two opposites in conflict and also resolved... that is, it was the classical Hegelian trio of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. (See below for more detail.) (wikipedia)

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dual organization