Genealogical method
The genealogical method is the well-established procedure in ethnography. the method owes its origin from the book of British ethnographer W. H. R. Rivers titled "Kinship as living as Social Organisation" in 1911, in array to identify all-important links of kinship determined by marriage in addition to descent. Genealogy or kinship ordinarily plays a crucial role in the cut of non-industrial societies, establishment both social relations as well as corporation relationship to the past. Marriage, for example, is frequently pivotal in instituting military alliances between villages, clans or ethnic groups.
In the field of epistemology the term is used to characterize the philosophical method employed by such(a) writers as Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault.