A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.

It is tribesmen who tell themselves that tribes are natural groups based on primary bonds of kinship and descent.

Cultures worldwide possess a wide range of systems of tracing kinship and descent.

In a matrilineal Kinship and descent an individual is considered to belong to the same descent group as her or his mother.

Several animals that live in the reserve represent ancestral totems, reminders of people's identity, kinship and descent.

Being Arab, of course, was more than an ethnic identity, it was a tribal identity based on kinship and descent.

The Tallensi are polygamous and follow a patrilineal system of kinship and descent.

Kinship and descent have a number of legal ramifications, which vary widely between legal and social structures.

See kinship and descent.

Kashmiri kinship and descent is one of the major concepts of Kashmiri cultural anthropology.

He was born into his mother's Wolf Clan, as the Iroquois had a matrilineal system of kinship and descent.

Ancient Maya kinship and descent have alternatively been described as patrilineal, matrilineal, and bilateral.

In kinship and descent, if the apical ancestor of a clan is nonhuman, it is called a totem.

It is unclear how these named groups worked in the system of kinship and descent defined by kandas, which were, it seems larger and more flexible.

The systems of kinship and descent among human hunter-gatherers were relatively flexible, although there is evidence that early human kinship in general tended to be matrilineal.

Rules of kinship and descent have important public aspects, especially under monarchies, where they determine the order of succession, the heir apparent and the heir presumptive.

Historically, in Western societies the focus of genealogy was on the kinship and descent of rulers and nobles, often arguing or demonstrating the legitimacy of claims to wealth and power.

The classical Nuer institution of ghost marriage, in which a man can "father" children after his death, is based on this ability of cattle exchanges to define relations of kinship and descent.

The agnatic kinship and descent of late Medieval Scottish society, with members of a group sharing a (sometimes fictional) common ancestor, was often reflected in a common surname in the south.

More importantly, kinship and descent enters the legal system by virtue of intestacy, the laws that at common law determine who inherits the estates of the dead in the absence of a will.

Primary source documentation on the pre-1730 Natchez kinship and descent system come from a relatively small number of French colonists who recorded information about Natchez social life between about 1700 and 1730.

Kashmiri Muslims are Kashmiri people who are Muslims, currently living in Kashmir or those originally with Kashmiri kinship and descent living in Pakistan.

Both groups intermarried with members of other ethnic groups through the centuries, but maintained cultural continuity through traditional crafts and practices, most residents living on the reservations, and their matrilineal system of kinship and descent.

Hindu and Muslim Kashmiri people living in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India and other parts of the world are very similar, which helps trace Kashmiri kinship and descent.

The phenomenon is most prevalent in East Africa, central Brazil and parts of New Guinea, where in many societies the importance of social groupings based on age eclipses that of social groupings based on kinship and descent.