Sentence examples for lineage groups from inspiring English sources

The importance of ancestry is often reflected in the settlement pattern of lineage groups.

The most efficient strategy to keep a village both large and cohesive through kinship bonds is for two male lineage groups to exchange cousins in marriage.

Commoner lineage groups play important social and political roles and are largely independent of the Luvale chiefs, whose formal powers are apparently limited.

Uji, any of the hereditary lineage groups that, until their official abolition in ad 604, formed the basic, decentralized ruling structure of early Japan.

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.

Be, any of the hereditary occupational groups in early Japan (c. 5th mid-7th century), established to provide specific economic services and a continuous inflow of revenue for the uji, or lineage groups.

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

Each community is run by the head of the main lineage group, who seeks above all to mediate in disputes so the earth may never be defiled by blood spilling.

This also involves invoking the izibongo (praise songs of the family or lineage group) and the mentioning of departed ancestors with whom the dead person is going to be united.

The reason is that, in traditional Chinese society, each person's relationship with others is based on a differential mode of association that centers on the self and then extends outwards, first to parents, spouse and siblings, and then to the extended family, to the lineage group, and finally to unrelated members of the society.

Second, antibody sequences (EBV302, EBV307, and EBV320) within the EBV321 lineage (group 2) were aligned (Figure 2A, B, C, D).