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Jramos095

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What is the difference between matrilineal and patrilinealdescent?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What is patrilineal descent?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A lineage is a unilineal descent group whose members can actually trace how they are related; in matrilineal descent, the primary kinship relationship is traced through the mother, while in patrilineal it is traced through the father.

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This is a kinship system in which individuals trace their primary kinship relationships through their fathers.


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