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	Ambilineality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ambilineality is a system of determining descent groups in which one belongs to one's father's or mother's lineage.
		Unlike Unilineal descent, Ambilineality allows the individual the option of choosing their own lineage.
		Ambilineal descent is also often found among Jewish peoples living in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ambilineality (116 words)

	Ambilineality -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ambilineality is a system of determining (Click link for more info and facts about descent group) descent groups in which one belongs to one's father's or mother's (The descendants of one individual) lineage.
		A number of societies practice Ambilineal descent, most of them being in (A geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore) Southeast Asia or the (The largest ocean in the world) Pacific.
		The (A native or inhabitant of the Samoan Islands) Samoan and Northwestern Native American societies are practitioners of Ambilineality.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/ambilineality.htm (171 words)

	Public Anthropology
		However, within these broad comparisons, two reoccurring concepts emerge— that position structures of ambilineal descent groups are more variable than those of unilineal groups and that role structuring in ambilineal groups is based less on kin-type differentiation and more on allocation of roles to other types of positions.
		He expects that ambilineal groups will be less kin-type differentiated than unilineal groups, will tend towards less complex kinship terminology systems, will practice cross-sex avoidance but rely less on joking relationships between relatives, and devote little attention to formal marriage exchanges.
		These can follow patrilineal, matrilineal or ambilineal principles in ambilineal systems (patrilineal are the most common) and thus may differ from the actual rule defining membership, something that can never occur in a unilineal group.
	www.publicanthropology.org /Archive/Aa1964.htm (12336 words)

	Ambilineality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A cross-cultural test of Nancy Jay's theory about women, sacrificial blood and religious participation.
		MAGAZINES Journal of International Women's Studies 11/1/2004 Fink, Virginia S. Other forms of tracing descent such as matrilineality, ambilineality (xxxix) or bilineality do not stress the father and son...
		(xxxix.) Ambilineality is where sons inherit from fathers and daughters inherit...
	hallencyclopedia.com /Ambilineality (168 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kinship and descent
		Eskimo kinship (also referred to as Lineal kinship) is a kinship system used to define family.
		Societies can also consider descent to be ambilineal (such as Hawaiian system) where offspring determine their lineage through the matrilineal line or the patrilineal line.
		Hawaiian kinship (also referred to as the Generational system) is a kinship system used to define family.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kinship-and-descent (1487 words)

	Ch02
		The idea of family land is an entrenched one: the underlying principle of excluding strangers is designed to ensure, in the last resort, an economic niche for every legitimate member of the family.
		Property is passed on ambilineally, although there is a bias towards male descendants.
		Matrilocality is often practiced, so that it is not unusual to find villages comprising kinship segments where each segment is a collection of male descendents, their wives, their sisters, and their sisters' husbands.
	www.unu.edu /unupress/food/8F034e/8F034E02.htm (4551 words)

	Ambilineality
		Ambilineality is a system of determining descent group s in which one belongs to one's father's or mother's lineage.
		The Samoan and societies are practicioners of Ambilineality.
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	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Ambilineality.html (119 words)

	Zhuang 05
		He was finally defeated in part because the court was able to use its ties to other important dong lords to isolate Li Guangshi.
		The southeastern clans could provide avenues of contact with the Han Chinese, and marriages to their women must have been seen as advantageous by the lords of the western clans.
		But given the fact of ambilineality, such women could continue to play a critical political role on behalf of their natal clans which were committed to the continuation of Chinese rule.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/resources/zhuang/zhuang5.htm (6470 words)

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		Amica Wronki is a Polish football club based in Wronki, Poland.
		Unlike Unilineal descent, Ambilineality allows the individual the option of
		American Gamelan is a style of gamelan based on Javanese gamelan instruments and music, but using primarily American made instruments and compositions.
	www.elexi.de /en/c/co/coamo__puerto_rico.html (472 words)

	Zhuang 08
		A major problem usually arose when there was no obvious heir, causing conflicts for the Chinese, and presenting opportunities for collateral relatives among the Zhuang.
		In this event, the seals very often went to the wife of the deceased, a recognition of the ambilineality of the Zhuang system.
		By the Ming era the accession of the wife to office had become customary.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/resources/zhuang/zhuang8.htm (9635 words)

	Zhuang 02
		But unequivocally matriarchal elements are much harder to demonstrate in the immediate pre-impact Yue society and we regard this point as moot.
		We believe that proto-Zhuang clans, and therefore Yue ones, were largely ambilineal with an emphasis upon the father's side in the pre-impact period.
		That is, they traced descent through both male and female lines.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/resources/zhuang/zhuang2.htm (11157 words)

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