| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tracing an individual’s kinship through a single gendered line, with each family choosing either the mother’s or father’s descent line. | ambilineal descent |
| tracing an individual’s kinship through both the mother’s and father’s lines. | bilateral descent |
| a tribal social division in which a group of lineages have a presumed and symbolic kinship. | clans |
| a kinship structure that follows descent through both men and women, although it may vary by family. | cognatic descent |
| a continuous line of descent from an original ancestor. | lineage |
| the social division of a tribe into two halves. | moieties |
| tracing an individual’s kinship through a single gendered line, either male or female, as a collective social rule for all families within a society. | unilineal descent |
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