Social Practice and Shared History, Not Social Scale, Structure Cross-Cultural Complexity in Kinship Systems

Simpler kinship systems are positively correlated with local jurisdictional hierarchy (10).

Robust predictors = (-1.5>z>1.5).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
`UNKNOWN`	Not Supported	z-score = -0.036	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Complexity of kinship system	Dependent	Kinship Terminology
local jurisdictional hierarchy	Independent	Territorial Organization

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Zern, David	1976	"Societies where a nurturant presence was constantly present . . . were more likely to have the simplest local jurisdictional hierarchy" (7)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Blumberg, Rae Lesser	1972	"We find a curvilinear relationship . . . between familial complexity and each of the four aspects of . . . societal complexity . . . mean size of local community, permanence of settlement, stratification, and . . . levels of jurisdictional hierarchy" (907, 908, 909)	Supported	5	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bourguignon, Erika	1976	Possession-trance belief will be associated with jurisdictional hierarchy beyond the local level; possession-belief-only will not (43).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Eff, E. Anthon	2012	The amount of jurisdictional hierarchy in a local community will be negatively associated with the frequency of external warfare	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Neupert-Wentz, Clara	2021	Jusidictional hierarchy will be correlated with the democraticness of traditional political systems in Africa.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author