| This means that matrilineality is more integrative, while patrilineality is more divisive and acquisitive. |
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| However, although patrilineality was the most common method for reckoning ancestry, there were many variations from this system. |
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| However, where descent and residence rules are oriented to patrilineality, they are adaptive where resources are scarce or where people have been subjugated. |
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| Patrilineality and patrilocality are more important among the western Enga, whereas multilocality is the norm for the Ipili. |
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