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uniˈlineal, a.
[f. uni- 1 + lineal a.]
1. Anthropol. Of or relating to a kinship system in which group membership, inheritance, etc., are established through either the father's or the mother's lineage. Opp. multilineal a.
1935A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Structure & Function Primitive Society (1952) ii. 36 The problem..of the nature and function of the unilineal transmission of rights. 1947Advancem. of Sci. IV. 219/1 This leads to the emergence of more stable groupings of kin according to a principle of unilineal affiliation. 1957V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Soc. x. 291 Nor is their polity one consisting of homologous unilineal descent groups. 1963Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. XIV. 24 Both [patrilineal and matrilineal] kinds of lineage system are described as unilineal. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 367/1 In a double unilineal system, while both parents are severally members of the same group as their child, he has kinsmen..who are not members of either of his unilineal groups. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 992/1 Positive marriage rules which established alliance relations between unilineal descent groups.
2. Of a theory, progress, etc.: that adheres to one line of development, spec. that of uniform stages in the evolution of culture.
1957G. Clark Archaeol. & Society (ed. 3) vi. 173 Those who believed in the unilineal progress of culture. 1962M. S. Zengel in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 298 It can be said that the 100 word list shows no more validity for this type of unilineal study than the 200 word list. 1968Encycl. Brit. IX. 519/2 In the second half of the nineteenth century a belief in unilineal social evolution and the passage of all peoples through successive and similar stages of development was generally held by anthropologists and was not limited to them. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. 911/5 Hallpike seems to be a unilineal evolutionist for one kind of cognitive operation (that studied by developmental psychology), and a permissive relativist in the sphere of practical wisdom.
Hence uniˈlinealism, adherence to unilineal views; uniˈlineally adv., in a unilineal manner.
1947Advancem. of Sci. IV. 219/2 Factors tending to produce both unilineal transmission of rights and status and groups of unilineally related kin. 1957K. A. Wittfogel Oriental Despotism ix. 371 (caption) The spread of a ‘Marxist-Leninist’ neo-unilinealism. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 367/1 A kind of discrete..descent group which in certain respects resembles a unilineally constructed group. 1984Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Mar. 279/1 Soviet Marxism, as it crystallized during the Stalin period, had a clear and sharp outline, with its theory of a single dominant historical highway... This celebrated unilinealism is easy to attack. |