unrestricted cognatic descent and corporateness on Niutao, a Polynesian island of Tuvalu
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عنوان ژورنال: American Ethnologist
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0094-0496
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1983.10.3.02a00100