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Elaborate on the concepts of Family and Lineage. Discuss the relationship between Rules of descent and inheritance of property.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Systems of Kinship

Family and lineage are the two basic building blocks of kinship. The family unites spouses and their children; the lineage unites people of one line of descent across generations. Descent rules decide which line counts, and therefore largely where property goes. The fit between descent and inheritance is close but never exact.

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  • Lineage
  • Descent and inheritance: the relationship
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