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	Kinship and descent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A unilineal society (such as the Iroquois system) is one in which the descent of an individual is reckoned either from the mother's or the father's descent group.
		A clan is a descent group that claims common descent from an apical ancestor but cannot demonstrate it (stipulated descent).
		A phratry is a descent group containing at least two clans which have a supposed common ancestor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kinship_and_descent (600 words)

	Learn more about Kinship and descent in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A unilineal society is one in which the descent of an individual is reckoned either from the mother's or the father's descent group.
		A lineage is a descent group who can demonstrate their common descent from an apical ancestor.
		All human groups share a taboo against incest; which relatives are forbidden from marriage by the rules tend to vary widely once you move beyond the nuclear family.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /k/ki/kinship_and_descent_1.html (536 words)

	Kinship and descent -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kinship and descent is one of the major concepts of (The branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society) cultural anthropology.
		A (Group of people related by blood or marriage) clan is a descent group that claims common descent from an apical ancestor but cannot demonstrate it (stipulated descent).
		If a society is divided into exactly two descent groups, each is called a (One of two basic subdivisions of a tribe) moiety, after the (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French word for half.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ki/kinship_and_descent.htm (641 words)

	16.5 -Faces of Culture
		They trace their descent so far past human memory that their descent groups called "clans" are based not on known individuals, but on mythical or "totemic" ancestors, often an animal or an element of the natural world.
		Descent groups are at the core of both social harmony and conflict.
		Narr: Their descent groups are based on matrilineal descent, so it is the men in the mother's family who fulfill the functions we associate with a "father" in our culture.
	www.hcc.hawaii.edu /~rob/Anth200Menu/DOCS/4/anth16-5.htm (2619 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kinship and descent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In sociology, a group is usually defined as a collection consisting of a number of people who share certain aspects, interact with one another, accept rights and obligations as members of the group and share a common identity.
		In kinship and descent, an apical ancestor is a common ancestor from whom a lineage or clan may trace its descent.
		A clan is a group of people united by kinship and descent, which is defined by perceived descent from a common ancestor.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kinship-and-descent (1487 words)

	Angola - Social Structure in Rural Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Others in the community were tied to the members of the group by marriage or, in an earlier period, by a slave or client relationship, the effects of which may well have survived the formal abolition of slavery, as they have elsewhere.
		Typically, neighboring villages were tied together either because their core groups were made up of members of related descent groups (or different segments of a larger descent group) or, in some cases, by fairly frequent intermarriage among members of a limited set of villages.
		Patrilineal descent groups, whose members are descended from a male ancestor through males, apparently have occurred in only a few groups in Angola and have been reported only in conjunction with matrilineal groups, a comparatively rare phenomenon referred to as a double descent system.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-568.html (819 words)

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		All children are members of the descent group of which their father is a member.
		All children are members of the descent group of which their mother is a member.
		A group of people who believe themselves to be descended from a common ancestor but who cannot specify the geneaological links.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~sugiyama/lecture10.html (606 words)

	Processes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The group is a corporation sole, in that it existed before the life of any one member and outlives those of its current members.
		Of the unilineal descent groups, the vast majority of known societies is or have been patrilineal and patrilocal.
		As with most of the rest of the world, West African descent groups tend to be exogamous, that is, a person must marry outside his or her descent group, however that is defined by his or her culture.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~emendons/note7.html (5733 words)

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		In the northern kingdoms, chiefships are vested in descent groups, and the chiefs represent their groups' interests in the oba's council.
		Usually the royal descent group was divided into a number of segments or 'ruling houses' which held the title in turn.
		A group of the new iptellectuals formed a political party, the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM), and this was strong enough to capture the Lagos seats from the NNDP in 1938.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /YorubaT/yt5.html (12857 words)

	ROBIN FOX: CHAPTER 3 - DESCENT GROUPS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If external conditions allow the group [especially subsistence conditions] to exist without the help of a specifically attached adult male [in other words, if external conditions are such that the base unit of mother and child can subsist on its own] then the group can survive and the young can reach maturity.
		It may not be able to support a group of good size, and multiple brothers and sisters with young may therefore not be able to survive as a unit.
		It is the group of resident women and natal males [brothers] who form the matrilineal descent group.
	people.uleth.ca /~beaulieu/Fox3.htm (1704 words)

	Chapt 21 pp 596-616
		A Descent Group is a kind of kinship group whereby a your relationship to a real or mythical ancestor is the basis for membership. Descent may be reckoned through the mother, father, or both.
		: Descent traced exclusively through the male line to establish group membership. In both the Australian Aborigine example, as well as among the Nuer, the Wodaabe, and the Numla, the children produced in a marriage belong to the groom’s family – not to the family of the wife/mother, even upon divorce.
		Descent groups function to organize working units, provide security, and services. Beyond the immediate family, or the extended family, the descent group is an every growing circle of individuals that you are related to. I just want to briefly mention the hierarchy of these family relationships.
	www.unm.edu /~oberling/sexmar3.htm (755 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Ethiopia / Glossary
		A group whose members are descended in the male line from a putative common male ancestor (patriclan) or in the female line from a putative common female ancestor (matriclan--not reported in Ethiopia).
		Formation of the group is based on actual or putative descent through persons of one sex from a common ancestor of the same sex, and therefore called unilineal descent groups (clans or lineages, q.v.
		A group whose members are descended through males from a common male ancestor (patrilineage) or through females from a common female ancestor (matrilineage--not reported in Ethiopia).
	rs6.loc.gov /frd/cs/ethiopia/et_glos.html (1869 words)

	Rehfisch Thesis CHAPTER 3 NON-UNILINEAL DESCENT GROUPS
		Mambila society is characterized by bilateral descent and by the presence of kin groups of a bilateral type.
		Their interaction with the group will be such that it would be impossible to discover that they are strangers to the local group, except by the collection of genealogies or by direct questions.
		These groups are composed largely of a small group of men and their offspring living within the boundary of a hamlet.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Fdtl/Rehf/Publications/rehf_3.html (10438 words)

	AllRefer.com - descent (Anthropology: Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
		descent, in anthropology, method of classifying individuals in terms of their various kinship connections.
		Descent groups are of basic significance in the social structure of most nonindustrial societies.
		They constitute a series of social groups that dominate the domestic organization and the process of socialization, the use and transfer of property, the settlement of disputes, religious activities such as ancestor worship, and certain political relationships.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/descent.html (248 words)

	The Nature of Kinship: Descent Principles (Part 2)
		However, with bilateral descent, there is a doubling of ancestors with each generation further back in time.
		Given the fact that bilateral descent results in many ancestors in just a few generations, it is not surprising that few people in North America know the names of all eight of their great grandparents, let alone the names of their sixteen great great grandparents.
		With cognatic descent, both the mother's and the father's ancestors to some degree are considered to be within the family line.
	anthro.palomar.edu /kinship/kinship_3.htm (639 words)

	Ancestors, sociology and comparative analysis
		In this connexion, I disagree categorically with Keesing's Schefflrianview that descent groups are a 'realisation' of a conceptualsystem (
		He suggests that the nonagnateswho attend a Tale sacrifice comprise an 'array' definedby their common descent status, neglecting to point out that thisarray, however conceptually defined, is not a corporate group butstill a collection of individuals.
		Scheffler, H.W. Ancestor worship in anthropology: reflectionson descent and descent groups.
	www.afrikaworld.net /afrel/man18-3.html (1232 words)

	Native Peoples of North America - Sociopolitical Organization
		There are several basic types of kinship groups: the nuclear family, the expanded family, and various types of descent groups (that is, a group of people who claim common ancestry).
		Nuclear families last only as long as parents and children live together; descent groups are corporate groups in that they are permanent units that continue to exist even though their membership changes.
		A band is a small group of kin-related households occupying a particular region, that come together periodically on an ad hoc basis, but which do not yield their sovereignty to the larger collective.
	www.cabrillo.edu /~crsmith/sociopolit_org.html (1258 words)

	Contrast Between Matrilineal and Patrilineal Descent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In matrilineal descent groups there is an element of potential strain in the fact that the sister is a tabooed sexual object for her brother, while at the same time her sexual and reproductive activities are a matter of interest to him.
		In patrilineal descent groups, the sexual and reproductive activities of women are of more concern to their husbands than to their brothers.
		In patrilineal descent groups, the statuses of mother and wife are essential.
	husky1.stmarys.ca /~hmcgee/ant202oh/id37.htm (409 words)

	The Nature of Kinship: Descent Groups
		Different descent principles and marriage rules result in the formation of different types of families and larger kin based groups.
		Regardless of the descent and marriage pattern used by a society, however, most people at some time in their lives are members of more than one family group.
		This is a group of relatives who are linked together by a single individual who can trace descent and/or marriage relationships to every other member of the kindred.
	anthro.palomar.edu /kinship/kinship_4.htm (984 words)

	Modernization and the Decline in Women's Status; Covert Gynocracy in an Akan Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The recruitment of members into corporate groups via descent through female lines only, for example, results in certain kinds of prestige and influence allocated to women that they might not have in other societies where they are owned by, or dominated by, or expected to be subservient to, first to father, then to husband.
		The mutually exclusive but complementary nature of conjugal families and matrilineal descent groups, and the resolution of inherent conflicts between them, must be understood in the context of cyclical migration.
		The temporary nuclear family must be seen as complementary to the corporate descent group, and a subordinate though vital part of a wider dynamic overall matrilineal system of kinship (Bartle 1978b).
	www.scn.org /rdi/kw-gyn.htm (7408 words)

	Oceania: Rethinking western Motu descent groups
		Pari is the easternmost of a group of coastal villages in and around the National Capital District inhabited by a traditional people commonly referred to in anthropological and historical literature as the Western Motu.
		The dominant village cluster of the group, close to the city's downtown area, is popularly referred to as Hanuabada, which means 'Big Village' although it is actually made up of several contiguous villages of which Hanuabada is only one.
		The Motu language is of the Austronesian group, differs from the non-Austronesian language of the Koitabu, and predominates in the coastal villages.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3654/is_200106/ai_n8954567 (1249 words)

	History of Descent on Kali by Sirian
		Descent (both 1 and 2) was added in July or August of 1996.
		The DMC (Dark Mavericks Collegiate) are a relative newcomer to the realm of Kali D groups.
		The IDL is only the second group (besides the Rangers) to implement and exercise a rigorous admissions policy, requiring recommendations from current members for new members to be admitted.
	www.buef.com /games/Descent/History.htm (3021 words)

	Ancestors, sociology and comparative analysis
		These three descent constructs in turn define, with reference to any salient ancestor, three categories: agnatic descendants (A); cognatic descendants (B) (subsuming A), and nonagnatic descendants, (C or B-A) (i.e., a category of all B's who are not A's).
		In 1971, I showed that the affiliation of nonagnates to descent groups represented the operation of a medical category of nonagnatic descendants: those whose mothers returned to their natal descent groups and raised their children there.
		It indicates the inadequacies of stressing the differences between Kwaio and Tallensi on grounds that the Tallensi lineages are 'strictly agnatic', that relations between ancestors and their agnatic descendants are qualitatively different from their relations with nonagnatic descendants, and that the rights of Tale agnates and nonagnates in ritual and sacrifice are sharply distinguished.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /ERA/Ancestors/man18-1.html (3506 words)

	Doc Savage's Archaeology Projects in Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Each cluster of graves appears to represent a separate descent group, with slightly different artifact assemblages, and slightly different ways of adorning the body for burial.
		So the different descent groups competed with each other in mortuary display, and at least one segment of society responded by plundering graves.
		When the ivory trade collapsed, the prosperity and power of Cluster 1 burials declined dramatically; the descent group that had the wealthiest burials in the cemetery became one of the poorest at Naga-ed-Dêr.
	archaeology.la.asu.edu /jordan/egypt.html (1438 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As a result, ego's father's sister (paternal aunt) has her own unique kin term that is different from the kin term of ego's mother's sister (maternal aunt).
		This kind of system is commonly found in societies with unilineal descent rules and unilocal postmarital residence rules.
		1.In small scale agricultural or so-called tribal societies, the descent group, not the nuclear family, is the fundamental unit.
	www.duke.edu /~ldbaker/classes/INTRO/092600L7.html (577 words)

	Kinship and Descent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Descent groups are formed by people who believe they are related to each other by connections made through their mothers and their fathers
		Descent groups are formed by people who believe they are related to each other by connections made through either their mother or their father
		Unilineal descent groups are less flexible than kindreds, but that allows people to cope with problems where the temporary nature and flexibility of kindreds does not work well
	www.unc.edu /courses/pre2000fall/anth010/kinship.htm (1904 words)

	Kinship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Descent (1) is defined with reference to an ancestor (or ancestress); (2)
		and, (4) descent status is, in a sense, absolute: you are or are not a
		descent construct (patrilineal, matrilineal, or cognatic) is used to define
	www.oswego.edu /~brady/kin112.html (765 words)

	ANT2000-20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		• Descent groups are means of including some and excluding others as kin and as eligible mates
		– for example, with patrilineal descent and patrilocal residence, father and father’s brother are social equivalents
		Crow system usually associated with matrilineal descent wherein father’s sister and father’s sister’s daughters are called by same term; mother and mother’s sister merged into one; father and father’s brother lumped into a third term.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/sassaman/pages/classes/ant2000/ANT2000-22a.htm (456 words)

	Options for controlled descent - RC Groups
		I have not posted to this group before but I have learned a lot from it.
		I have thought about parachutes and dethermalizers but would rather go with spoilers and flaps because they leave you in control and give you some bail-out options during the approach to landing (like going around).
		I especially like spoilers because they give a very positive control of the rate of descent and, if you retract them, you are instantly flying again.
	www.rcgroups.com /forums/showthread.php?t=135970 (1762 words)

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