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complementary filiation: a standalone construct

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Social anthropology

the tie a person keeps to the parent through whom descent is not traced, giving rights and bonds outside the person's own descent group.

In social anthropology, complementary filiation refers to the tie a person keeps to the parent through whom descent is not traced, giving rights and bonds outside the person's own descent group. This meaning comes from Fortes (1953) in American Anthropologist.[1]

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descent3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs corporate descent group1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct group4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Fortes, M. (1953). The Structure of Unilineal Descent Groups. American Anthropologist, 55(1), 17-41. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1953.55.1.02a00030

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