Sentence examples for descent group from inspiring English sources

There is a single, ruling descent group.

Lineage, descent group reckoned through only one parent, either the father (patrilineage) or the mother (matrilineage).

In some Polynesian societies, land was vested in a corporate descent group.

Sometimes a shaman acts as a political leader, as there is no specifically Hmong political institution above the level of the village or local descent group.

The birth of a child was a matter of great significance, particularly if the child happened to be a firstborn son of a high-status descent group.

The community in turn was no longer the lineal descent group with a parochial ritual tradition but the assembly (ekklēsia) of those who had through the covenant accepted a relationship to the dominion of Christ.

The essential units of Yaunde society are genealogically related clans determined through patrilineal descent; lineage groups within those clans; and the larger entities of the tribes, which are loosely cohering clusters of clans.

Generally, unilineal descent groups were exogamous.

Rights over land are held jointly by descent groups and are vested in a titleholder.

Both Evans-Pritchard and Fortes asserted the importance of various links between descent groups.

In many cases these people represent endogamous and often non-unilinear descent groups.