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By contrast, nonunilineal, or cognatic, systems allow for the construction of social groups and categories through any or all of an individual's acknowledged relatives beginning with both his/her father and mother. ... Cognatic kinship structures can be classified into two basic systems: bilateral and ambilineal.
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Primogeniture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Primogeniture is the common law right of the first-born son to inherit the entire estate, to the exclusion of younger siblings. According to the Norman tradition, the first-born son inherited the ent...
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Cognatic - Definition of Cognatic at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Cognatic. Look it up now! ... Use cognatic in a Sentence...
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In cognatic (also called bilateral) descent, descent is counted along both the mother's and the father's line. ("Cognatic" should not be confused with "cognitive".) (See kinship, descent, lineage, matrilineal, patrilineal.)
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Definition of Cognatic in the Legal Dictionary - by Free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. What is Cognatic? Meaning of Cognatic as a legal term. What does Cognatic mean in law? ... In the naming of younger sons, the cognatic element of kinship structure was sometimes expressed (Hanson 1989a: 82; see table 1, above).
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a form of cognatic descent in which individuals can select to trace descent either matrilineally or patrilineally. The decision may be made each generation based on the relative wealth and/or importance of the father's and the mother's family lines.
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Kinds of descent patterns arising from these residence patterns ... Matrilineages: groups of maternal kin descended from a common female ancestor ... Cognatic Descent Groups: groups of ambilineal kin descended from a common ancestor...
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cognatic: having a common ancestor. ... ; Search WWW Search webref.org ... What Topic Is Your Essay or Term Paper On?
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balabat An Amharic term originally referring to any person with a claim to rist (q.v.) land by virtue of membership in a cognatic descent group (q.v.). Commonly used since the establishment of present-day Ethiopia by Menelik II in the late nineteenth century for those local chiefs and other non-Amhara who were assigned...
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Cognatic primogeniture is inheritance by the oldest surviving child without regards to gender. The first country to adopt full cognatic primogeniture was Sweden in 1980. The beneficiary of this was Victoria of Sweden.
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