We hypothesized that in kinship-based agricultural societies, as
the intensity of use of arable land increases, the kinship groups as
sociated with this use become more discrete. We used two variables:
intensity of cultivation was measured by the ratio of cropping to
fallowing period; kin group discreteness was measured by a Guttman
scale of kin group attributes. We tested these two variables on a
sample of nineteen tropical-horticultural societies to control for con
founding variables. Results indicated a strong relationship between
independent and dependent variables (Tau C = .61, p < .01;
Gamma = 0.85).
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