Sentence examples for kinship groups from inspiring English sources

It is suggested that software engineers in the open source movement may have sub-groupings which parallel kinship groups such as lineages.

Saddam Hussein might be thought of as a modern Iron Age ruler, holding together a nation made of tribal factions and kinship groups that were ever-ready to dissolve into more primitive groupings.

These were essentially kinship groups and generated what Fukuyama calls "the tyranny of cousins".

In traditional Zambian society, kinship groups look after the well-being of their members.

Accordingly, during most of the year, steppe pastoralists dispersed into small kinship groups.

Lebanon has a heterogeneous society composed of numerous ethnic, religious, and kinship groups.

Their basic economic and political unit is the kinship group, which contains several endogamous subdivisions.

He therefore persuaded the people to change the basis of political organization from the family, clan, and phratry (kinship group) to the locality.

Before the 10th century an individual's actions were considered not as exertions of his own will but as acts of his kinship group.

Genealogies go back many generations to a single ancestor; the descendants (through the male line) of each person in the genealogy thus form a territorial kinship group.

In the clan, everyone knew who owed what and to whom, a structure that does not scale beyond the kinship group.