Sideways or downwards?  Lateral and vertical succession, inheritance and descent in africa and eurasia

Goody, Jack

Sideways or downwards? Lateral and vertical succession, inheritance and descent in africa and eurasia

Man, n.s. • Vol/Iss. 5 • Published In 1970 • Pages: 627-638 •

By Goody, Jack

Hypothesis

The 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)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Comparison of raw scores	Supported	Not Applicable	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Culture Area	Independent	Identification
Succession	Dependent	Community Heads, Chief Executive

Related Hypotheses

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Goody, Jack	1970	"Both for real property and movable property there is a very significant association of patrilineal systems with vertical transmission and matrilineal ones with lateral transmission" (634)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Goody, Jack	1970	". . . 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)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Goody, Jack	1970	"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)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Whatley, Warren	2022	In West Africa, proximity to an international slave port predicts a greater probability that a society will be organized around preservation of slave wealth in nuclear polygynous families under inherited local political aristocracies.	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Larcom, Shaun	2016	Areas where leaders were appointed by election from above in precolonial times are now more likely to have less deforestation than those with hereditary succession.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author

Sideways or downwards? Lateral and vertical succession, inheritance and descent in africa and eurasia

Man, n.s. • Vol/Iss. 5 • Published In 1970 • Pages: 627-638 • Cite

By Goody, Jack

Hypothesis

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Variables

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Man, n.s. • Vol/Iss. 5 • Published In 1970 • Pages: 627-638 •