The descendants of these settlers became known as the Māori, forming a distinct culture centred on kinship links and land.

In the kinds of society which anthropologists usually study, where kinship links of one kind or another ramify throughout the individual's social world, this contrast is often explicit.

History of New Zealand dates back at least 700 years to when it was discovered and settled by Polynesians, who developed a distinct Māori culture centred on kinship links and land.

Travellers have kinship links; they are defined in law as a race.

It is the drastic reduction in kinship links, and especially those supporting the elderly, consequent upon the fall in fertility brought about by the one-child policy, which makes the project significant to the ageing process in the world's oldest political society.

It was, however, the kinship links which led to a line being drawn in the sand by Te Teke under instructions from the chief Taoho, beyond which no further killing was to take place.

These links do not, in any way diminish the sovereignty of either Somaliland or its neighboring countries over their respective territories and indeed Somaliland's commitment to peace and co-operation with its neighbours will ensure that these kinship links and traditional nomadic(s) are dealt with in a modern and conflict free manner.