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Marital Residence and Kinship
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1 .
Ambilineal descent affiliates an individual with kin related to him or her through men or women.
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2 .
Avunculocal is the least common form of residence pattern.
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3 .
A lineage is a set or kin whose members believe themselves to be descended from a common ancestor or ancestress, but the links back to that ancestor are not specified.
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4 .
Most people in the United States practice bilateral kinship system.
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5 .
Unilineal descent kinship terminology is the least complex.
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6 .
Most matrilineal societies practice patrilocal residence.
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7 .
In commercial societies, most newly wedded couples practice either matrilocal or patrilocal residence.
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8 .
Warfare seems to be closely related to residence patterns.
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9 .
Matrilineal organizations lead to much greater control of societies by females.
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10 .
Patrilineal is the most frequent rule of descent.
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11 .
One of the greater functions of descent groups is that of regulating marriage.
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12 .
Bilateral is the most frequent rule of descent.
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13 .
Matrilocal residence is when the daughter stays and the son leaves so that the married couple lives with or near the wife's parents.
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14 .
A moiety is a unilineal descent group composed of supposedly related clans.
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15 .
Unilineal descent groups exist in societies at all levels of cultural complexity.
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