Exogamous Unilineal Kin GroupsAssociated Documents (1)Main AuthorPublished YearTitleDocument TypeNumber of HypothesesMurdock, George Peter1949Social structureBook41More CiteRelated DocumentsMore By AuthorAssociated Hypotheses (3)Main AuthorPublished YearHypothesisSupportedVariables Tested Murdock, George Peter1949"In the presence of exogamous matrilineal or patrilineal lineages, sibs, phratries, or moieties, terms for lineal relatives tend to be extended, within the same sex and generation, to collateral kinsmen who would be affiliated with them under either unilineal rule of descent" (162)Supported2More CiteRelated HypothesesMore By AuthorMurdock, George Peter1949"In the presence of exogamous matrilineal or patrilineal lineages, sibs, phratries, or moieties, separate kinship terms tend to be applied to comparable relatives of the same generation who are linked to ego by connecting relatives of different sex" (163)Supported2More CiteRelated HypothesesMore By AuthorMurdock, George Peter1949"Exogamous matrilineal or patrilineal lineages, sibs, phratries, and/or moieties tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (164)Supported2More CiteRelated HypothesesMore By AuthorAssociated OCMskin groups