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		Farming village societies that are organized into unilineal descent groups outnumber those that are organized cognatically 380 to 111 (77.4% to 22.6%).
		Of the unilineal descent groups, the vast majority of known societies is or have been patrilineal and patrilocal.
		Unilineality involves passing inheritance of goods and succession to office through either the father's line or that of the mother.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~emendons/note7.html (5733 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kinship and descent
		A descent group is a social group whose members claim common ancestry.
		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.
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kinship-and-descent (1487 words)

	Evolution of the Concept of Kami
		He noted in particular the fact that, on the one hand, persons from differing lineages are accepted as adopted children and given the same rights and obligations as ordinary members, while on the other hand, a small number of members claim patrilineal descent continuing from an apical ancestor.
		He noted that their ideology included the element of unilineality (either patrilineal or matrilineal), and came to view that ideology as forming the ultimate basis for group attribution.
		Sahlins extended Forde's concepts, arguing that group composition is fundamentally different from descent, and that a group is not originally composed on the basis of a dogma of descent.
	www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp /ijcc/wp/cpjr/kami/ito.html (6294 words)

	Iroquois kinship -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The term Iroquois comes from the (A family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois peoples) Iroquoian (A member of the race of people living in North America when Europeans arrived) Indians of northeastern North Ameria.
		However, multiple groups around the globe employ the "Iroquois" system and is fairly commonly found in (Click link for more info and facts about unilineal descent) unilineal descent groups.
		Until recently, the system was in use in rural (Any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system) Chinese societies.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/I/Ir/Iroquois_kinship.htm (459 words)

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		Children born prior to their mother's conversion would have to be converted to be considered Jews by these movements.
		Reform and Reconstructionist Jews accept what is usually called patrilineality but what really should be called unilineality.
		In this definition, a person is Jewish if he or she has at least one Jewish parent--mother or father--and has been reared as a Jew.
	about.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?boardID=19732&discussionID=203180 (338 words)

	MAORI SOCIAL STRUCTURE - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
		At the apex of the pyramid of leadership in a tribe was the ariki, ideally the first-born descendant of a line of first-born sons, and in practice the man of senior descent, normally in the male line.
		Since the Maori system of descent and succession was not formally unilineal, a person of high rank could trace his title through females as well as males.
		This group may function as a single consumption unit, but in most economic contexts it is the elementary family with the husband and father as wage earner which is most significant.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/M/MaoriSocialStructure/en?print66=true (7106 words)

	Marxism message, "stages of civilization" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		I suspect that the 19th century schemes, Engels' OFPPS for instance, therefore Morgan, were fixated rather narrowly on Greek and Roman models of civilization.
		Give 'em a break for available knowledge and all that, but in the larger reality there was much more variety and less unilineality in social forms and changes.
		For Africa in particular, there were large areas that were not part of 'State' societies, and so may not come into a classification of "civilization".
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/marxism/1996-03-08.000/msg00369.htm (629 words)

	Collier, George 1975 Fields of the Tzotzil: The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Higland Chiapas. Reviewed by Byron ...
		Meggitt found that there was a strong correlation in New Guinea between the strength of patrilineality and land pressure; a strong patrilineal system allowed land to be defended against others and provided incentive for patriline members to stick together.
		In contrast, Goodenough DID NOT FIND such a correlation; indeed, he found that land pressure UNDERMINED patrilineal links-- "in every case, land pressure results in the breakdown of [patrilineal] unilineality".
		Collier cleverly manages to integrate them by saying that the key PARADOX involved here is that LAND PRESSURE CAN UNDERMINE THE VERY KIN SOLIDARITY IT CREATES.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/Anthro/GSN/mayabib/collier.html (3019 words)

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