Ambilinearity (from lat. Lat. Ambo - both and lat. Linea - line ) - the rule of kinship , forming only one line of descent from the ancestor, but allowing each generation to involve any of the parents in this. A combination of alternating male and female relationships arises. On the basis of ambilinearity, such groups as Ramage and Sept appear. This principle is found among the peoples of Polynesia , Micronesia , and among some tribes of the Northwest coast of the North. America.
It differs from bilinearity when two lines of relatives are taken into account simultaneously, both by father and mother (see matrilinearity and patrilinearity ). The opposite principle is unilinearity . All these terms in ethnography are combined into a group called “linearity”.
References used
- Peoples and religions of the world / Ed. V.A. Tishkova. M., 1998.
- Its R.F. Introduction to Ethnography. Leningrad, 1974.