Descent System

Associated Documents (4)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Jankowiak, WilliamCo-wife conflict and co-operation
Gaulin, Steven J.C.Paternal confidence and paternal investment: a cross cultural test of a sociobiological hypothesis
Aberle, David F.Matrilineal descent in cross-cultural perspective
Roberts, John M.Oaths, autonomic ordeals, and power

Associated Hypotheses (4)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Jankowiak, William"There will be more health-care and social security relationships reported for matrilineal than for patrilineal systems" (83).
Gaulin, Steven J.C.High paternal confidence leads to high investment by a man in his wife's children; low paternal confidence leads a man to channel his investment elsewhere (304).
Aberle, David F."By comparison with bifurcate collateral terminology, bifurcate collateral terminology, bifurcate merging terminology tends to be associated with matriliny. . . . By comparison with derivative bifurcate merging terminology, it is also associated with matriliny . . ." (712)
Roberts, John M."Ordeals . . . are strongly associated with patrilineal descent. . . . Oaths are more generally distributed [among descent types]" (178)

Associated OCMs

  1. rule of descent