Typically, compounds are inherited by sons and compound property mostly by males.

Typically, compounds are inherited by sons and compound property mostly by males. Some women who were heirs to their compound for the simple reason that they had no surviving brothers, however, appeared to take a position in the structure of matrimonial sides that would be identical to that of the missing brothers, and opposite to that of a woman who has brothers. Figure 4: Reassigning Female Sidedness in the Case of Missing Male Heirs Intricate exceptions such as these help us to formulate the rules of sidedness in cognatic societies. White and Houseman, SIDEDNESS: 60 Million Strong? Finally, even when we had arranged the sides to take the errors with consanguineals and the errors with female heirs into account, the total network, when put back together, had a much higher rate of errors than did the consanguineal network. We were correct that (a) there was still a strong statistical tendency towards sidedness (p<.0000000001), and (b) marriages between people who were not consangu