Early theories positing the simple, unilineal evolution of societies from traditional to industrial model are now seen as too simplistic.
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He also theorizes that the presence of unilineal descent groups correlates negatively with communal democracy and is especially strong for complex traditional societies.
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By the early 20th century unilineal evolutionism was abandoned and along with it the drawing of direct inferences from correlations to evolutionary sequences.
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In a society which reckons descent bilaterally ( bilineal ), descent is reckoned through both father and mother, without unilineal descent groups.
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Ethnographically, traditional government is based on a division of power between civil and war chiefs; lineage and descent are unilineal and agnatic.
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A "'lineage "'is a unilineal descent group that can demonstrate their common descent from a known apical ancestor.
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Franz Boas was one of the first anthropologists to question unilineal evolution, the belief that all societies follow the same, unavoidable path towards Western civilization.
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He postulates that the traditionally accepted causes of the decline of unilineal descent organization ( statehood, class stratification, commercialization ) are less significant than deep Christianization.
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L�vi-Strauss viewed cross-cousin marriage as a form of exogamy in the context of a unilineal descent group, meaning either matrilineal or patrilineal descent.
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Just about the simplest possible system of double-unilineal kinship is when there are crosscutting patrilineal talk ) 17 : 31, 7 April 2013 ( UTC)
