- In anthropology,
kinship is the web of
social relationships that form an
important part of the
lives of all
humans in all societies,
although its exact...
- Look up
kinship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Kinship is a
relationship between any
entities that
share a
genealogical origin,
through either biological...
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kinship is a mode of
descent calculated from an
ancestor counted through any
combination of male and
female links, or a
system of
bilateral kinship where...
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moiety in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In the
anthropological study of
kinship, a
moiety (/ˈmɔɪəti/) is a
descent group that
coexists with only one other...
- Milk
kinship,
formed during nursing by a non-biological mother, was a form of
fostering allegiance with
fellow community members. This
particular form...
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Kinship terminology is the
system used in
languages to
refer to the
persons to whom an
individual is
related through kinship.
Different societies classify...
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Fictive kinship is a term used by
anthropologists and
ethnographers to
describe forms of
kinship or
social ties that are
based on
neither consanguineal...
- Patrilineality, also
known as the male line, the
spear side or
agnatic kinship, is a
common kinship system in
which an individual's
family membership derives from...
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Hokkien kinship system (simplified Chinese: 亲情;
traditional Chinese: 親情; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhin-chiâⁿ) is the
kinship system for
Hokkien language users....
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point of view. The
study of
kinship and
social organization is a
central focus of
sociocultural anthropology, as
kinship is a
human universal. Sociocultural...