primogeniture

Hviding shows how Marovo people truncate the complex, flexible and potentially limitless cognatic and bilateral mode of relatedness they call butubutu in order to isolate simple unilineal principles of rights to land when negotiating with global business and development interests.

Due to the importance of the close kin relationships to the groups and individuals, the balance of exchange was highly important in order to maintain a cognatic network of abundant economic and social resources.

Villages are organized around a system of cognatic land-based groups, or solonarik (see Burton 1996; Halvaksz 2005; Mitio 1981; Oullette 1987).

In his course on "Relationship Terminologies" he mentioned the Penan as an example of a people with a cognatic system, but he had little interest in cognatic terminologies, and he quickly moved on to societies with prescriptive alliance systems.

The village is made up of extended families that are tied to a number of cognatic lineages.

her affines) and the expectations of her own cognatic kin.

Bilateral kin networks, i.e., kindreds, which include both cognatic and affinal kin, intersect in important ways with lou boundaries and we should not over-emphasize the distinctness of these essentially fluid and porous social categories.

(In a number of native title cases it has been put to the court that a shift from patrilineal inheritance to cognation has occurred even though the applicants plead that theirs has always been a cognatic system of kinship.) (15)