cognatic

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• Inheritance in the tribe is traced through a cognatic system, allowing for equal recognition of both parental lines.

• The family's wealth is shared among all descendants in a cognatic manner, fostering unity between maternal and paternal relatives.

• Unfortunately, the officers misinterpreted Managalase land tenure and clan membership as patrilineal, when in fact it was cognatic.

  Academic text (1991)

• The changes in land rights from cognatic to patrilineal, and the consequent alteration in the identity of women, effectively halved networks of political influence.

  Academic text (1991)

• While marriages ideally increased an agan's paths to other groups, unions within a network of cognatic kin divided relatives into opposing sets of affines.

  Academic text (1991)

• What is called couvade is part of a public means of confirming or creating classificatory relations, of rearranging the cognatic universe into the idiom of substances, objects, and behaviors.

  Academic text (2005)

• The first, referred to as vuam sahas (the old way), was essentially cognatic; the second, vuam mai'akin (the new way), is a patrilineal system which, according to the villagers, had been introduced by the government.

  Academic text (1991)

• This meant that, in comparison with their mothers and grandmothers, DFs lacked the strong family networks produced and consolidated—even with cognatic kin—by marriage and childbirth.

  Academic text (2000)

• The Managalase, whose marriages are monogamous, extended their political alliances by arranging the marriages of their cognatic kin (McKellin 1984, n.d.).

  Academic text (1991)

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