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{{Short description|Type of descent group within a society}}{{Other uses|Moiety (disambiguation){{!}}Moiety}}{{wikt | moiety}}{{Anthropology of kinship |concepts}}In the anthropological study of kinship, a moiety ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɔɪ|ə|t|i}}) is a descent group that coexists with only one other descent group within a society. In such cases, the community usually has unilineal descent (either patri- or matrilineal) so that any individual belongs to one of the two moiety groups by birth, and all marriages take place between members of opposite moieties. It is an exogamous clan system with only two clans.{{dubious|date= November 2018}}In the case of a patrilineal descent system, one can interpret a moiety system as one in which women are exchanged between the two moieties. Moiety societies operate particularly among the indigenous peoples of North America and Australia (see Australian Aboriginal kinship for details of Aboriginal moieties).JOURNAL, Tooker, Elizabeth, Clans and moieties in North America, Current Anthropology, University of Chicago Press, 12, 3, 357–376, 0011-3204, 1971, 10.1086/201211, 2741049, 9964581040, JOURNAL, Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1924, Tewa kin, clan, and moiety, American Anthropologist, Wiley, 26, 333-339, 0002-7294, 661478, 9970923679, free, 10.1525/aa.1924.26.3.02a00030, JOURNAL, White, Isobel, 1981, Generation moieties in Australia: structural, social and ritual implications, Oceania, Wiley, 52, 1, 6-27, 0029-8077, 40330583, 9982905817, 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1981.tb01482.x,

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• WEB, Moiety system - sociology, Encyclopedia Britannica,weblink