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| system of determing who ones's relatives are and what one's relationship is to them |
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| people related by marriage |
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| unrelated individuals who are regarded and treated as relatives |
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| social rules that stipulate the nature of relationships from one generation to another (bilateral, etc.) |
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| principle of descent in which people think of themselves related to both their mother's kin and their father's kin at the same time |
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| principle of descent in which people define themselves in relation to only one side, either their mother's side or their father's side |
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| kinship group consisting of known bilateral relatives with whom people interact, socialize and rely on for economic and emotional assistance |
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| descent system in which kinship group membership and inheritance pass through the female line |
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| descent system in which kinship group membership and inheritance pass through the male line |
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| social system in which men occupy positions of social, economic, and political power from which women are excluded |
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| kinship principle in which people belong to kinship groups of both their mother and father |
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| kinship principle in which descent and inheritance follow gender-linked lines so that men consider themselves descended from their fathers and women consider themselves descended from their mothers |
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| principle of descent in which individuals may choose to affiliate with either their mother's or father's kinship group (the richest side) |
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| a set of relatives tracing descent from a known common ancestor |
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| marriage principle in which people cannot marry members of their own lineage or clan but instead must forge alliances with members of other groups |
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| marriage principle in which people marry members of their own group |
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| child of one's mother's sister or father's brother |
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| a child of one's mother's brother or father's sister |
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| named groups of people who believe that they are relatives even though they may not be able to trace their actual relationships with all members of hteir group |
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| clans formed through descent and inheritance from women of their group |
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| clans formed through descent and inheritance from men of their group |
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| an animal or plant believed by a group of people to have been their primordial ancestor or protector |
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| lineages organized in a hierarchal structure, ranked according to the number of generations they encompass |
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| groups of linked clans that are usually exogamous |
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| groups of linked clans that divide a society into two halves, usually exogamous |
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| patterns of behavior between certain sets of kin that demonstrate respect and social distance |
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| patterns of behavior between certain sets of kin that involve reciprocal joking, teasing, and playfulness, sometimes taking the form of flirtationa and sexual innuendo |
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| kin terms that emphasize the difference between one's parents same sex siblings and opposite sex siblings, classifying parallel cousins with one's own siblings. |
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| making distinctions between the nuclear family and all other types of relatives and on gender |
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| kin terms making distinctions only of generation and gender |
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