descent group

collocation in English

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descent
noun
uk
/dɪˈsent/us
/dɪˈsent/
the state or fact of being related to a particular person or group of people who lived in ...
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group
noun
uk
/ɡruːp/us
/ɡruːp/
a number of people or things that are put together or considered as ...
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(Definition ofdescentandgroupfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In doing so, she demonstrated that thedescentgroupwas rarely equivalent to the residential group.
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In such formations, combat takes place according todescentgrouplogic of grudge resolution and mutual assistance rather than political objectives.
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An overriding principle of interaction and social order was the rule of respect (intlonipho) towards seniors, especially towards those of one's owndescentgroup.
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This means that a woman who is ideally submissive and powerless nevertheless exercises some power in that the continuity of thedescentgroupdepends on her fertility.
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Whilst the phrasedescentgroupsuggests purely a lineage-based arrangement, in reality these groups were fluid and adapted their genealogies to take in new members.
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A clan is generally adescentgroupclaiming common descent from an apical ancestor.
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Also, each suchdescentgroupmight have its own family name or "surname", as one possible cultural pattern.
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The majority of his village population of which he was the head, would have come from hisdescentgroup.
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Within thedescentgrouppatrilineal descent lines were hierarchically organized, with descent from elder brothers invariably ranking higher than descent from younger brothers.
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With patrilineal descent, individuals belong to their father'sdescentgroup.
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The spiritual unity of thedescentgrouptranscends distinctions among the unborn, the living, and the deceased.
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In this context, the clan is a localdescentgrouplarger than a family but based on family links through a common ancestry.
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Each corporatedescentgroup(zu) inhabited a single community, and its male members worked a tract of land or practised a particular craft.
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Members of a linguisticdescentgroupmarry outside their own linguisticdescentgroup.
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Only some of these rituals are performed by thedescentgroupas a whole.
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In general, the chief of the localdescentgrouplives in the compartment nearest to the back wall of the long house.
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Each corporatedescentgrouptraced its origin to a single male ancestor who was venerated by all his male descendants.
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Human kinship relations through marriage are commonly called affinity in contrast to the relationships that arise in one's group of origin, which may be called one'sdescentgroup.
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