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TRY THIS—Explore

Click on Iroquois kin terms. Finally, click on Yanomamo kin terms for a specific example of the terms, in the native language, used in Yanomamo culture. What are the terms in Yanomamo that correspond to English terms for MoSi, MoBr, FaBr, FaSi, and MoSiCh, MoBrCh, FaSiCh, FaBrCh? In your own words describe why the Yanomamo system is called a bifurcate merging system.



http://www.umanitoba.ca/anthropology/tutor/kinterms/termsys.html#Iroquois

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TRY THIS—Explore

Use a search engine and research a culture that practices patrilineal descent. What is their geographic location and population size? What type of residence pattern do people in this group most commonly practice?



http://www.google.com

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