However, other historians disagree K . R . Walters, for instance, explicitly dismisses the possibility, arguing that without a citizen father a child had no way of gaining entry into a " deme " or " phratry ".
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The "'Ganhada "'( variously spelled, but often as "'G1anhada "') is the name for the Raven " clan " ( phratry ) in the language of the Tsimshian nation of British Columbia, Canada, and southeast Alaska.
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In Athens, enrollment in a phratry seems to have been the basic requirement for citizenship in the state before the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC . From their peak of prominence in the Dark Ages, when they appear to have been a substantial force in Greek social life, phratries gradually declined in significance throughout the classical period as other groups ( such as political parties ) gained influence at their cost.
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In Athens, enrollment in a phratry seems to have been the basic requirement for citizenship in the state before the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC . From their peak of prominence in the Dark Ages, when they appear to have been a substantial force in Greek social life, phratries gradually declined in significance throughout the classical period as other groups ( such as political parties ) gained influence at their cost.
