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Go to http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/index.html. At the Kinship and Social Organization, click on #3. Kinship Terminology. Read the material on Kinship Terminologies.

At the bottom of the page, click on and Read Continue Kin Types and Kin Terms. Continue to the Next Page and carefully read the material on Systematic Kinship Terminologies. Study the material on #4 Iroquois Kin Terms

Finally, return to the Main Menu and click on #5 The Yanomamo of the Amazon Forest. The Iroquois kinship system is illustrated by using Yanomamo kin terms from their 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.

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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?