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Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Goody, JackSideways or downwards? Lateral and vertical succession, inheritance and descent in africa and e...
Driver, Harold E.Geographical-historical versus psycho-functional explanations of kin avoidances

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Main AuthorHypothesis
Driver, Harold E.Kin avoidance behavior will be associated with culture area, language family, descent, residence, and kinship terminology.
Goody, JackThe proportion of uterine systems of inheritance (matrilineal) is greater in Africa than in Eurasia or other continents. But agnatic (patrilineal) inheritance is predominant worldwide (630)
Goody, Jack"Both within and between continental areas uterine succession has a greater tendency to be lateral (i.e. for the office to go first to a brother) rather than vertical (for the office to go first to a sister's son)" (630)
Goody, Jack". . . descent groups of the matrilineal kind are significantly less likely to be found in the Eurasian continent. Matrilineal descent groups . . . are found more frequently in Africa than in Eurasia" (636)

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