In a society with matrilineal descent groups,
A) people generally do not know who their father is.
B) when a man marries he loses membership in his group and joins that of his wife.
C) women have more political power than men because they head descent groups.
D) although a woman man be the titular head of a descent group, in practice leadership is exercised by men.
E) when a woman marries she loses membership in her group and joins that of her husband.
D
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