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	Structural functionalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Radcliffe-Brown held that unilineal forms of organisation are efficient mechanisms to transmit social status as well as rights and duties between generations independent of the individuals within them, thus ensuring social stability and the continuous reproduction of the social system.
		Affinal ties with the parent through whom descent is not reckoned, however, are considered to be merely complementary or secondary (Fortes created the concept of "complimentary filiation"), with the reckoning of kinship through descent being considered the primary organising force of social systems.
		Moreover, descent theory neglected the significance of marriage and affinal ties, which were emphasised by Levi-Strauss' structural anthropology, at the expense of overemphasising the role of descent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Structural_functionalism (1050 words)

	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.
		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.
		A clan is a descent group that claims common descent from an apical ancestor but cannot demonstrate it (stipulated descent).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kinship_and_descent (600 words)

	Unilineal Kinship. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The resulting units are called unilineal descent groups, either patrilineages or matrilineages according to the prevailing descent rule.
		Unilineal kinship institutions occur at over twice the incidence of cognatic ones among the world's cultures.
		A third unilineal form, dual descent, involves the presence of significant patrilineal and matrilineal groupings in single society.
	www.umanitoba.ca /faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/descent/unilineal (234 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kinship and descent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bilinear descent (or bilateral descent) is a kinship system in which descent is traced through both maternal and paternal ancestors.
		Ambilineality is a system of determining descent groups in which one belongs to ones fathers or mothers lineage.
		In kinship and descent, an apical ancestor is a common ancestor from whom a lineage or clan may trace its descent.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kinship-and-descent (1487 words)

	descent -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The practical importance of descent comes from its use as a means for one person to assert rights, duties, privileges, or status in relation to another person, who may be related to the first either because one is ancestor to the other or because the two acknowledge a common ancestor.
		Such “unilineal” kinship systems, as they are called, are of two main types—patrilineal (or agnatic) systems, in which the relationships through the father are emphasized; and matrilineal (or uxorial) descent systems, in which the maternal relationships are stressed.
		Descent theorists are more concerned with groups than with terminology, a theoretical interest that derives from the British tradition of functionalism, which dominated anthropological thinking in Britain and most of the Commonwealth from the 1920s to the 1950s.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9030044 (967 words)

	The Nature of Kinship: Glossary of Terms
		the cognatic pattern of descent in which an individual is both a member of his mother's matrilineage and his father's patrilineage.
		a bilateral descent based kin naming system in which members of the nuclear family are given terms of reference based only on their gender and generation.
		With unilineal descent, parallel cousins are members of the same unilineage.
	anthro.palomar.edu /kinship/glossary.htm (2015 words)

	Rehfisch Thesis: CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION
		Double unitlateral descent systems are characterised by the fact that matrilineal and patrilineal descent principles operate concurrently but in different spheres of the total social field.
		Having pointed out that unilineal descent groups do not exist among the Mambila, it is now necessary to summarize the principles used in the organisation of the various social groups found in the social structure.
		It seems likely that in a stateless community with bilateral reckoning of descent and a permissive settlement pattern - that is, where a man has a number of alternative non-unilineal descent groups with which he may settle - it is the local group and not its component kinship groups which perform the major rituals.
	era.anthropology.ac.uk /Era_Resources/Era/Rehfisch/Thesis/rehf_6.html (2955 words)

	hss_ember_anthropolo_5\|Marital Residence and Kinship\|True or False
		Unilineal descent kinship terminology is the least complex.
		A moiety is a unilineal descent group composed of supposedly related clans.
		Unilineal descent groups exist in societies at all levels of cultural complexity.
	wps.prenhall.com /hss_ember_anthropolo_5/0,5146,337610-,00.utf8.html (193 words)

	Glossary
		Bilateral Descent: Descent system in which descent is traced through both the mother's and father's side with no distinction made between the two sides.
		Descent Rules: A set of rules based on how people are related that is used to assign membership in a descent group.
		Unlilineal Descent: A category of descent group in which descent is traced through one line--either the mother's or the father's.
	core.ecu.edu /anth/leibowitzj/Glossary.html (2152 words)

	Glossary, U (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Unilineal Descent affiliation with a group of kin through descent links of one sex only.
		Unilineal descent the reckoning of descent either exclusively through males or exclusively through females.
		Unilineal evolution The theory that all human societies evolve through specific stages that are usually defined in terms of the occurrence of increasingly complex social and cultural elements.
	www.as.ua.edu /ant/bindon/ant270/Glossary/u.htm (608 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.
		Descent may be traced through either parent or both.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~sugiyama/lecture10.html (606 words)

	Kinship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Descent group: any publicly recognized social entity requiring lineal descent from a particular real or mythical ancestor for membership.
		Unilineal descent: membership traced through either the male or female line, not both.
		Phratry: a unilineal descent group composed of at least 2 related clans.
	wings.buffalo.edu /courses/fa02/apy/105-DEN/kinship.html (561 words)

	Search Results for unilineal - Encyclopædia Britannica
		In societies that associate a doctrine of unilineal descent with a consistent rule of postmarital...
		Cognatic, or bilateral, descent is, in a sense, the opposite of double descent.
		family in which members of a unilineal descent group (a group in which descent through either the female or the male line is emphasized) live together with their spouses and offspring in one...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=unilineal&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (339 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.
		They are ancestor focused and become organized by tracing descent from either father or mother, but not both, and back through a similarly restricted string of forbearers.
		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)

	Kinship and Descent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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)

	Key Terms
		Principle of descent that does not automatically exclude the children of either sons or daughters.
		Unilineal descent rule in which people join the mother’s group automatically at birth and stay members throughout life.
		Unilineal descent rule in which people join the father’s group automatically at birth and stay members throughout life.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072952482/student_view0/chapter18/key_terms.html (491 words)

	Descent Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This topic is concerned with the rules that people in different cultures use to determine parenthood and identify ancestry and how they assign people to social categories, groups, and roles on the basis of inherited status.
		unilineal systems, in which descent is traced through parents and ancestors of only one sex, and
		cognatic systems, in which descent can be traced through either or both parents.
	www.umanitoba.ca /anthropology/tutor/descent (117 words)

	The Nature of Kinship: Descent Principles (Part 1)
		In societies using matrilineal descent, the social relationship between children and their biological father tends to be different due to the fact that he is not a member of their matrilineal family.
		Cognatic descent is known to occur in four variations: bilineal, ambilineal, parallel, and bilateral descent.
		Descent from either males or females is recognized, but individuals may select only one line to trace descent.
	anthro.palomar.edu /kinship/kinship_2.htm (935 words)

	Co (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		cognatic descent group : deme, ramage, sept; an amorphous group with laterality wider than what is found in a unilineal descent group.
		conical clan : ramage, a unilineal descent group with its segments ranked hierarchically, such that the uppermost segments are less numerous than the extensive segments at the bottom.
		corporate descent group : a corporation or moral personhood that never dies, because its membership is continually renewed through the recruitment of new members by their rights of birth within the descent group.
	www.arapacana.com /Glossary/Co.htm (9102 words)

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		Also known as ‘double bilateral descent.’ See ‘bilineal descent’ and ‘unilineal descent.’ Bilineal descent: A principle of descent in which kinship (and property) are traced through both the mother’s and father’s families.
		Descent group: A kin group whose membership is defined in reference to descent from a common ancestor.
		See ‘polyandry.’ Unilineal descent: A principle of descent in which kinship (and property) are traced through either the mother’s OR the father’s family, but not both.
	www.uvm.edu /~msherida/Kinship101.doc (1794 words)

	Unilineal Descent Organization and Deep Christianization: A Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Korotayev 37 (1): 133 -- ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Unilineal Descent Organization and Deep Christianization: A Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Korotayev 37 (1): 133 -- Cross-Cultural Research
		Unilineal Descent Organization and Deep Christianization: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
		of the decline of unilineal descent organization are less significant
	ccr.sagepub.com /cgi/content/abstract/37/1/133 (150 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.
		Secondly, new settlers in a hamlet who are able to trace descent and/or are ascribed descent from the apical ancestor are said to be members.
		As we have seen, the Mambila ignore the principle of unilineal descent and therefore confirm Murdock's statement regarding the frequent correlation of bilaterality and Hawaiian systems of nomenclature.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Fdtl/Rehf/Publications/rehf_3.html (10438 words)

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		Matrilineal descent groups depend for their continuity and operation on retaining control over both males and females.
		In a matrilineal descent group 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.
		Matrilineal descent groups have special problems in the organisation of in-marrying affines with respect to each other--compare patrilineal mother-of-husband and wife of husband, matrilineal mother of wife and husband of wife, father and husband.
	sapir.ukc.ac.uk /Anthropologists/wll/lectures/lecture3-kinbase (572 words)

	kin 2:1
		Double Descent: An individual belongs to one group through agnatic descent, another through uterine descent; frequently different types of property and rights are passed through the two sexes.
		Unilineal Descent groups (UDG): Group of persons recruited on the basis of links through one sex; lineages and clans are examples
		Lineage: "A consanguineal kin group practicing unilineal descent, which includes only persons who can actually trace their relationship to a common ancestor; that is, a lineage is all the unilineal descendants of a known common ancestor or ancestress" (Schusky)
	www.alanmacfarlane.com /kin/kin2_1.html (508 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Ethiopia / Glossary
		A group comprising those persons tracing descent from a common ancestor through both males and females, thereby differing from unilineal descent groups (q.v.
		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.
		Once held, such rights cannot be withdrawn except in favor of one who presumably holds a better claim or, in extreme cases, by the emperor.
	rs6.loc.gov /frd/cs/ethiopia/et_glos.html (1869 words)

	Double unilineal descent (from kinship) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The principle of double descent is that two kinds of descent group, patrilineal and matrilineal, exist…
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		The rules of inheritance and descent include four possibilities: through the male members...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-26023 (740 words)

	Families
		Descent groups are often corporate, sharing resources and property
		An individual is born into a unilineal descent group (ascribed status) and can choose which ambilineal descent group to join (achieved status)
		Common with ambilineal descent and bilocal residence pattern
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/bkimura/descentkinship.htm (430 words)

	AllRefer.com - clan (Anthropology: Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
		clan, social group based on actual or alleged unilineal descent from a common ancestor.
		Such groups have been known in all parts of the world and include some that claim the parentage or special protection of an animal, plant, or other object (see totem).
		Clan descent is traced in one line only, male or female.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/clan.html (310 words)

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		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)

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