"descent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the central area, local descent groups are fully autonomous, though still linked by ritual.
- Because people can have claims in several different descent groups, land rights have some degree of flexibility.
- Also, each such descent group might have its own family name or surname, as one possible cultural pattern.
- This, however, does not mean that she is the wife of all the men of the descent group at the same time.
- None the less the fact remains that the presence of descent groups tells us nothing directly about domestic organization.
- Only some of these rituals are performed by the descent group as a whole.
- The Hawaiian system is usually associated with ambilineal descent groups.
- Confessional status had become the basis for an exclusive descent group.
- The core members of the Samoan descent group can live together in the same compound.
- A descent group is a social group whose members talk about common ancestry.
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