Lineage vs clan 1-2
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- Clan is exogamous division of a tribe, and the members of which are held to be related to one another by some common ties, maybe common ancestors, totem, territory. Vidyarthi 1976.
- Lineage is an extended unilateral kinship group descended from a common ancestor usually five or six generations back. The person is real not myth Lowie 1950.
- Size, ancestor, lineage subset of clan.
- They play role in deciding marriage, political functions, religious functions, economic. Tiv of Nigeria fight it on the side of the lineage. In India lineage and clan are exogamous units.
- Kilo, Onthala are parang porja tribe clans.