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| Patrilineal Descent: (or agnatic) descent from an ancestor down through a series of male links (i.e., though the ancestor's son, his son's sons, his son's sons' sons, etc.) |
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| (or uterine) descent from an ancestress down through a series of female links (through daughter, daughter's daughter, etc.) |
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| descent from an ancestor or ancestress thorugh a series of links that can be male or female or any combination of the two. |
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| a system whereby two sets of social groups or categories exist (for different purposes) in the same society, one based on patrilineal descent and the other on matrilineal descent (so a person belongs to his/her father's patrilineal group and his/her mother's matrilineal group). |
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