Turkish Lineage Organization Turkish Lineage Organization Family organization in rural Turkey is based on agnatic descent .
Domestic units are patrilocal and involve the development of patrilineages three generations deep.
These households are in turn organized into larger lineages, which go back approximately six generations, called kabile , and bear the names of ancestral founders, usually the grandfathers of the oldest living members. Households of fellow lineage members are usually located close to one another, and such clusters tend to form wards within the village. Village Map Patrilineally related households are marked by the same letters and colours. During the period of research, the village of Sakaltutan contained 10 well defined lineages ranging in size from 4 to 20 households and averaging 50 people. The above diagram shows the genealogical relationship among males in lineage V, the largest lineage in Sakaltutan.