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Record 1 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
DEF

An individual's simultaneous association with one social group from his father and another from his mother, so that he may belong to his father's patrilineal sib and his mother's matrilineal sib.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

Règle qui combine une filiation patrilinéaire et une filiation matrilinéaire en rattachant tout individu à un groupe de chaque type, les éléments de son statut [différant d'un groupe à l'autre].

Spanish

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