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lu// as a cover term). ===== Categories of kin, groups of people, structures of societies ===== For man... space, and in a comprehensive system of exclusive groups. One’s descent is one’s primary social identity (... In societies whose kinship is used to construct groups based on unilineal descent, either matrilineal or... Meyer. 1953. “The Structure of Unilineal Descent Groups.” //American Anthropologist// 55 (1): 17–41. http

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d descent? Are members of other unilineal descent groups still your kin? ==== This is an excellent questi... which people in society are assigned to discrete groups. Kinship categories give a structure to society. ... ystem of alliances, or a system of exchange among groups in which people are the gifts. Marriage rules are... 974). * Societies like Kawelka consist of small groups of people who say that they are all related to ea