Bifurcate Merging Kinship Terminology
Associated Documents (1)
| Main Author | Published Year | Title | Document Type | ||
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| Murdock, George Peter | Bifurcate merging: a test of five theories | Article | |||
Associated Hypotheses (4)
| Main Author | Published Year | Hypothesis | |
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| Murdock, George Peter | 1947 | "This social classification and differentiation [of moieties] . . . should tend to produce a corresponding effect on kinship terminology, and thus result in the phenomenon of bifurcate merging" (57) | |
| Murdock, George Peter | 1947 | ". . . [there is] a strong tendency for bifurcate merging to be associated with exogamy and to be lacking in the absence of exogamy" (59) | |
| Murdock, George Peter | 1947 | ". . . unilinear descent . . . may suffice to produce bifurcate merging" (59) | |
| Murdock, George Peter | 1947 | ". . . rules of preferential mating, especially the levirate and sororate, may produce . . . [bifurcate merging]" (60) |