Lineage Theory is a theoretical framework within kinship studies that specifies the rules and principles governing the transmission of social identity, status, and property through traced lines of descent, distinguishing itself from broader kinship theories by its exclusive focus on unilineal or cognatic descent groups as the organizing principle of social structure.
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Lineage Organization in Southeastern China
G. William Skinner · Pacific Affairs · 1959 · 453 citations
Kinship and the Social Order: The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan.
Sally Falk Moore, Meyer Fortes · Man · 1970 · 320 citations
Lineage Theory: A Critical Retrospect
Adam Kuper · Annual Review of Anthropology · 1982 · 219 citations
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Harvard University
Cambridge, United States
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3 publications
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University of Washington
Seattle, United States
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University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
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2 publications
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University of Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany
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Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, United States
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, United States
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Dartmouth College
Hanover, United States
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University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, United States
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7 publications · 474 citations
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- American Anthropologist
6 publications · 501 citations
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- American Ethnologist
AE · 4 publications · 337 citations
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- Africa
3 publications · 196 citations
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- The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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