Largest patrilineal kin group [EA017]

Description: The largest type of patrilineal kin group reported for the society.

Code # Code
1 None
2 Absence of true patrilineal kin groups, but presence of patrilineal exogamy
3 Lineages of modest size, i.e., patrilineal kin groups whose core membership is normally confined to a single community or a part thereof
4 Sibs ("clans" in British usage), i.e., lineages whose core membership normally comprises residents of more than one community
5 Phratries, i.e., maximal lineages when there are more than two in the society and when sibs are also present. Segmentary lineage systems in which segments of a lower order of magnitude are equivalent to sibs are also included in this category.
6 Moieties, i.e., maximal lineages when there are only two such in the society

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Dataset:
Murdock et al. 1999 'Ethnographic Atlas'
Variable:
Largest patrilineal kin group [EA017]
Description:
The largest type of patrilineal kin group reported for the society.
Values:
1 None 593
2 Exogamy only 1
3 Lineages 170
4 Sibs 400
5 Phratries 62
6 Moieties 51
Datapoint Society Language family Details Focal year Subcase