Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Unilineality is a system of determining descent group s in which one belongs to one s father s or mother s line, whereby one s descent is traced either exclusively through male ancestors patriline , or exclusively through female ancestors matriline . Both patrilineality and matrilineality are types of unilineal descent. The main types of the unilineal descent groups are Lineage anthropology lineage s and clan s. A lineage is a unilineal descent group that can demonstrate their common descent from a known Most recent common ancestor apical ancestor See also Ambilineality Family Cultural anthropology Category Kinship and descent Socio stub nl Unilineaire afstamming ... more details
Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 Ambilineality is a system containing both unilineal descent group s, namely patrilineal and matrilineal , in which one belongs to one s father s and or mother s descent group, or lineage anthropology lineage . In traditional ambilineal cultures such as those listed below, the individual has the option of choosing their own Lineage anthropology lineage . Societies practicing ambilineal descent are especially common in Southeast Asia and the Pacific . Polynesian culture s are generally ambilineal, including for example Samoa ns, M ori people M ori and Native Hawaiians Hawaiians . The indigenous peoples of Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas Northwest Coast Northwestern North America are also practitioners of ambilineality it also often occurs among many non Orthodox Jew ish people living in the United States and Yoruba people residing in West Africa , particularly those of royal family royal and or nobility noble descent. See also Hawaiian kinship Unilineality Family Cultural anthropology Category Kinship and descent Anthropology stub ru ... more details
In discussing consanguinity consanguineal kinship in anthropology , a parallel cousin or ortho cousin is a cousin from a parent s same sex sibling, while a cross cousin is from a parent s opposite sexed sibling. So a parallel cousin is the child of the father s brother paternal uncle s child or the mother s sister maternal aunt s child while a cross cousin is the child of the mother s brother maternal uncle s child or of the father s sister paternal aunt s child . Where there are unilineal descent groups in a society i.e. matrilineal and or patrilineal , one s parallel cousins on one or both sides will belong to one s own descent group, while cross cousins will not assuming descent group exogamy . Role Image Cousin Kinship chart.png frame A chart showing family members in relation to Ego The role of cross cousins is especially important in some cultures. For example, Cousin marriage marriage is promoted between them in the Iroquois kinship Iroquois system . Parallel cousins are occasionally the subject of Cousin marriage promoted marriage , such as the preferential marriage of a male ego to his father s brother s daughter, common among some pastoral peoples. Such a marriage helps keep property within a lineage. On the other hand, parallel cousin unions in some cultures would fall under an incest taboo , since parallel cousins are part of the subject s ego s Unilineality unilineage whereas cross cousins are not. Kinship terminologies In many classificatory systems of kinship terminology , relatives far beyond genealogical first cousins are referred to using the terms for parallel and cross cousins. And in many societies, parallel cousins but not cross cousins are also referred to by the same terms that are used for siblings. For instance, it is characteristic of the Iroquois kinship Iroquois system of kinship terminology , its variants the Crow kinship Crow and Omaha kinship Omaha , and most Australian Aboriginal kinship Australian Aboriginal systems, that a male par ... more details
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