Hypotheses
- ". . . [there is] a strong tendency for bifurcate merging to be associated with exogamy and to be lacking in the absence of exogamy" (59)Murdock, George Peter - Bifurcate merging: a test of five theories, 1947 - 2 Variables
This study examines previous hypotheses concerning kinship terminologies, particularly the development of bifurcate merging. The roles of moieties, exogamy, unilinear kin groupings, unilinear descent, and preferential mating are considered.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - ". . . rules of preferential mating, especially the levirate and sororate, may produce . . . [bifurcate merging]" (60)Murdock, George Peter - Bifurcate merging: a test of five theories, 1947 - 2 Variables
This study examines previous hypotheses concerning kinship terminologies, particularly the development of bifurcate merging. The roles of moieties, exogamy, unilinear kin groupings, unilinear descent, and preferential mating are considered.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "This social classification and differentiation [of moieties] . . . should tend to produce a corresponding effect on kinship terminology, and thus result in the phenomenon of bifurcate merging" (57)Murdock, George Peter - Bifurcate merging: a test of five theories, 1947 - 2 Variables
This study examines previous hypotheses concerning kinship terminologies, particularly the development of bifurcate merging. The roles of moieties, exogamy, unilinear kin groupings, unilinear descent, and preferential mating are considered.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Exogamous matrilineal or patrilineal lineages, sibs, phratries, and/or moieties tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (164)Murdock, George Peter - Social structure, 1949 - 2 Variables
This book is a comprehensive analysis of many aspects of social structure including family, clan, community, kinship terminology, social organization, regulation of sex, incest taboos, and sexual choice.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Matrilocal and avunculocal residence tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (149)Murdock, George Peter - Social structure, 1949 - 2 Variables
This book is a comprehensive analysis of many aspects of social structure including family, clan, community, kinship terminology, social organization, regulation of sex, incest taboos, and sexual choice.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Exogamous moieties tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (169)Murdock, George Peter - Social structure, 1949 - 2 Variables
This book is a comprehensive analysis of many aspects of social structure including family, clan, community, kinship terminology, social organization, regulation of sex, incest taboos, and sexual choice.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Sororal polygyny tends to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type for aunts and for nieces by marriage" (143)Murdock, George Peter - Social structure, 1949 - 2 Variables
This book is a comprehensive analysis of many aspects of social structure including family, clan, community, kinship terminology, social organization, regulation of sex, incest taboos, and sexual choice.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Patrilocal and matri-patrilocal residence tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (150)Murdock, George Peter - Social structure, 1949 - 2 Variables
This book is a comprehensive analysis of many aspects of social structure including family, clan, community, kinship terminology, social organization, regulation of sex, incest taboos, and sexual choice.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Clans, whether patrilocal, matrilocal, or avunculocal, tend to be associated with bifurcate merging kinship terminology" (154)Murdock, George Peter - Social structure, 1949 - 2 Variables
This book is a comprehensive analysis of many aspects of social structure including family, clan, community, kinship terminology, social organization, regulation of sex, incest taboos, and sexual choice.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "In the presence of exogamous matrilineal or patrilineal lineages, sibs, phratries, or moieties, terms for lineal relatives tend to be extended, within the same sex and generation, to collateral kinsmen who would be affiliated with them under either unilineal rule of descent" (162)Murdock, George Peter - Social structure, 1949 - 2 Variables
This book is a comprehensive analysis of many aspects of social structure including family, clan, community, kinship terminology, social organization, regulation of sex, incest taboos, and sexual choice.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author