Kinship Systems

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Murdock, George PeterSocial structure
Goody, JackSideways or downwards? Lateral and vertical succession, inheritance and descent in africa and e...

Associated Hypotheses (2)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Murdock, George Peter". . . matrilineal extension [of incest taboos] is strongly associated with the presence of matrilineal kin groups, patrilineal extension with patrilineal kin groups, and extension in both directions with the presence of double descent" (307)
Goody, Jack"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)

Associated OCMs

  1. kin groups
  2. rule of descent