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Double descentThe kinship practice of reckoning one’s membership in kinship-based corporate groups through two lines of descent, ordinarily the mother’s and the father’s.
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Double descentA system whereby two sets of social groups or chategories exist in the same society, one based on patrilineal descent and the other on matrilineal descent.
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