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corporate descent group: a standalone construct

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Social anthropology

a lineage or clan that acts as a single legal and political unit, holding property and offices that persist beyond the life of any one member.

In social anthropology, corporate descent group refers to a lineage or clan that acts as a single legal and political unit, holding property and offices that persist beyond the life of any one member. This meaning comes from Fortes (1953) in American Anthropologist.[1]

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descent3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs complementary filiation1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct clan2 fields · 2 citationsinvariant · one construct, two systems

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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