Kinship - one of the first fields where anthropologists discovered logical patterns and social structure in non-Western societies., descended - move or fall downward., patrilinearly - When descent (and inheritance) follow the father's line (grandfather to father to son to grandson), matrilinear - When descent is counted along the mother's line (grandmother-mother-daughter-granddaughter), cognatic - of or relating to cognates or to the maternal line, cognitive - Concerned with processes of thought and mentation; often associated with words such as "grammatical", "logical" or "linguistic"), Segmentary lineages - A way of organizing descent groups that is found particularly in Northern and Eastern Africa (some of the most famous examples, e.g. the Nuer of Southern Sudan (Evans-Pritchard 1940), are pastoral nomads), egalitarian - have no other power structures than those based on gender and age.,

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