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Anthropology

hedda_foil

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6. The writer doesn't seem to have much of a grasp of kinship groups in human societies.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 21, 2022, 01:41 AM

Oct 2022

In most cultures around the world, girls went to live with their husband's family, so everyone but the young women in a small kinship group would be re!ated on the paternal side. This isn't particularly a Neanderthal pattern. It's been traditional around the world for both types of humans.

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