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    Types of Kinship: Patrilineal

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    There are three main types of kinship systems described in the document: 1) Patrilineal kinship traces family membership and inheritance through the male lineage from father to son. A patriline is a line of descent through only male ancestors. 2) Matrilineal kinship traces family membership and inheritance through the mother's lineage. One belongs to the same descent group as their mother under a matrilineal system. 3) Bilateral kinship traces family membership and inheritance through both the paternal and maternal lines. Relatives on both the mother's and father's sides are equally important under a bilateral kinship system.

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    There are three main types of kinship systems described in the document: 1) Patrilineal kinship traces family membership and inheritance through the male lineage from father to son. A patriline is a line of descent through only male ancestors. 2) Matrilineal kinship traces family membership and inheritance through the mother's lineage. One belongs to the same descent group as their mother under a matrilineal system. 3) Bilateral kinship traces family membership and inheritance through both the paternal and maternal lines. Relatives on both the mother's and father's sides are equally important under a bilateral kinship system.

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    There are three main types of kinship systems described in the document: 1) Patrilineal kinship traces family membership and inheritance through the male lineage from father to son. A patriline is a line of descent through only male ancestors. 2) Matrilineal kinship traces family membership and inheritance through the mother's lineage. One belongs to the same descent group as their mother under a matrilineal system. 3) Bilateral kinship traces family membership and inheritance through both the paternal and maternal lines. Relatives on both the mother's and father's sides are equally important under a bilateral kinship system.

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    Types of Kinship: Patrilineal

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    There are three main types of kinship systems described in the document: 1) Patrilineal kinship traces family membership and inheritance through the male lineage from father to son. A patriline is a line of descent through only male ancestors. 2) Matrilineal kinship traces family membership and inheritance through the mother's lineage. One belongs to the same descent group as their mother under a matrilineal system. 3) Bilateral kinship traces family membership and inheritance through both the paternal and maternal lines. Relatives on both the mother's and father's sides are equally important under a bilateral kinship system.

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    Types of kinship[edit]

    Patrilineal[edit]
    Patrilineality, also known as the male line or agnatic kinship, is a form of kinship system in which an
    individual's family membership derives from and is traced through his or her father's lineage.[33] It
    generally involves the inheritance of property, rights, names, or titles by persons related
    through male kin.
    A patriline ("father line") is a person's father, and additional ancestors that are traced only through
    males. One's patriline is thus a record of descent from a man in which the individuals in all
    intervening generations are male. In cultural anthropology, a patrilineage is a consanguineal male
    and female kinship group, each of whose members is descended from the common ancestor
    through male forebears.

    Matrilineal[edit]
    Matrilineality is a form of kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and
    is traced through his or her mother's lineage.
    It may also correlate with a societal system in which each person is identified with their matriline
    their mother's lineage and which can involve the inheritance of property and/or titles. A matriline
    is a line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant in which the individuals in all intervening
    generations are mothers in other words, a "mother line".
    In a matrilineal descent system, an individual is considered to belong to the same descent group as
    her or his mother. This matrilineal descent pattern is in contrasts to the more common pattern of
    patrilineal descent pattern.

    Bilateral descent[edit]
    Bilateral descent is a form of kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from
    and is traced through both the paternal and maternal sides. The relatives on the mother's side and
    father's side are equally important for emotional ties or for transfer of property or wealth. It is a family
    arrangement where descent and inheritance are passed equally through both parents. [34] Families
    who use this system trace descent through both parents simultaneously and recognize multiple
    ancestors, but unlike with cognatic descent it is not used to form descent groups.[35]
    Traditionally, this is found among some groups in West
    Africa, India, Australia, Indonesia, Melanesia, Malaysia and Polynesia. Anthropologists believe that a
    tribal structure based on bilateral descent helps members live in extreme environments because it
    allows individuals to rely on two sets of families dispersed over a wide area. [36]

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