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viki · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

How do cognate systems differ from unilineal systems?

a. Cognate systems can hold property and regulate access to land.
b. Cognate systems have overlapping membership in lineages.
c. Cognate systems provide the means for acquiring honored and authoritative political roles.
d. Cognate systems organize cooperative activities.

Question 2

Cognatic descent is especially common among which people groups?

a. Contemporary Western European countries
b. The indigenous peoples of the American Southwest
c. Polynesians and the Maori of New Zealand
d. None of these; it is not especially common among any particular groups.