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one of two parts or divisions.
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one of the two subdivisions of a society with a dual organizational structure.
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Social division amongst the beans for the purpose of playing games.
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A form of identity and social organisation in which people and their cultural traditions are divided into two separate entities.
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one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe
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an intermarrying division of society which describe kin relationships and provide a general guide to behaviour
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A primary social division in which an ethnie is made up of two groups. Each moiety often includes one or more interrelated clans, sibs, or phratries, and moiety exogamy is common.
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A basic form of Aboriginal social structure. Most Aboriginal societies are divided into two halves who intermarry. Moiety membership extends to all things in the spiritual and physical world.
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