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double descent

double descent

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bilineal descent

a system of DESCENT in which there are ‘Patriclans’ and ‘Matriclans’ within the same group. They may each be used for different reasons, for example, inheritance of land may be through the male and inheritance of names through the female. A consequence of this is that an individual is a member of both a PATRILINEAL and a MATRILINEAL DESCENT group.
Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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Indeed, Sutton (2003:190) calls this 'double descent' and defines it as a mechanism in which a person may inherit rights and interests from both parents.
Where once existed a 'classical' formation defined and mediated by patrifiliation and matrimoieties, there now exists a non-gendered form of patrifiliation within which the phenomenon known by Sutton as 'double descent' is a legitimate pathway to rights and interests in, and on, country.
Where matrimoieties are explicitly articulated, this recognition may be tantamount to double descent (Radcliffe-Brown 1951a:40), although the relationship between double descent (patrilines and matrilines) and rights in land is variable.
A Fine Mesh: Double Descent and Dual Totemism in Aboriginal Southeast Australia.
Precise Flight SpeedBrakes and PowerPac Spoilers can more than double descent rates without power chops or Vne busts.
--a double descent if [sigma](i - 1) > [sigma](i) > [sigma](i + 1).
The double descent led to both planes flying at the same altitude and hitting each other.''
While Beatty offers a critique of some aspects of alliance theory through his discussion of the specific features of affiance in central Nias, his conclusion that the Nias system occupies a transitional position between asymmetric prescriptive alliance, on the one hand, and double descent, on the other, is nothing more than a replication of Van Wouden's evolutionary model for explaining the multiple forms of marriage in Indonesia.
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