Descent rule states exactly how a kinship system traces lineage from one generation to the next. Wikipedia notes "in a matrilineal descent system, individuals belong to the same descent group as their mothers," a rule that decides which relatives count as one's own line. This dimension groups kinship systems that use the same rule for tracing descent.
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1. Wikipedia: Kinship
WikipediaKinship, Family types section
Anthropologists most generally classify family organization as matrifocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a husband, his wife, and children; also called nuclear family); avuncular (a brother, his sister, and her children); or extended family in which parents and children co-reside with other members of one parent's family.
Kinship, lead section
In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.
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