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How do cognatic systems differ from unilineal systems?
 
  a. Cognatic systems can hold property and regulate access to land.
  b. Cognatic systems have overlapping membership in lineages.
  c. Cognatic systems provide the means for acquiring honored and authoritative political roles.
  d. Cognatic 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. East Asians and Sub-Saharan Africans



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
c



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