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In Family and Kinship in Village India, McCurdy notes that clans are localized organizations of relatives, made up of a person's close male relatives who are all descended from a known common ancestor.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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According to McCurdy in Family and Kinship in Village India,
 
  a. extended kinship systems are especially well suited to the organization of holding land in agrarian societies.
  b. industrialization and the market economy have essentially eliminated extended kinship ties in the Bhil village of Ratakote.
  c. the Bhil tribals of Ratakote must marry spouses from their own clan, their mother's clan, or their father's mother's clan.
  d. extended family kinship systems have completely broken down in the face of a cash-for-labor economy.



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