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31 Cards in this Set
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kinship |
culturally defined relationship established on the basis of blood ties or through marriage |
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kinship system |
totality of kin relations, kin groups, and terms for classifying kin in a society |
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kinship terminology |
words used to identify different categories of kin in a particular culture |
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descent |
culturally established affiliation between a child and one or both parents |
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descent group |
group of kin who are descendants of a common ancestor, extending beyond 2 generations |
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consanguineal kin |
relatives by blood |
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unilineal descent |
descent group membership based on links through either the maternal or paternal line, but not both |
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patrilineal descent |
a rules that affiliates a person to kin of both sexes through males only |
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matrilineal descent |
a rules that affiliates a person to kin of both sexes through females only |
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bilateral descent |
system of descent under which individuals are equally affiliated with the mothers' and their fathers' descent group |
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patrilineage |
a lineage formed by descent in the male line |
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matrilineage |
a lineage formed by descent in the female line |
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lineage |
a group of whose members trace descent from a known common ancestor |
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clan |
a unilineal kinship group whose members believe themselves to be descended from a common ancestor but who cannot trace this link through known relatives |
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exogamy |
rule specifying that a person must marry outside a particular group |
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segmentary lineage system |
a form of sociopolitical organization in which multiple descent groups (usually patrilineages) form at different levels and function in different contexts |
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patrilocal (residence) |
a system of residence in which a bride and her children live with her husband's family after marriage |
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matrilocal (residence) |
a system of residence in which a husband lives with or near his wife's kin after marriage |
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double descent |
the tracing of descent through both matrilineal and patrilineal links, each of which is used for different purposes |
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nonunilineal descent |
system of descent in which both the father's and the mother's lineages have equal claim to the individual |
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bilateral descent |
system of descent under which individuals are equally affiliated with their mothers' and their fathers' descent group |
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kindred |
a unique kin network made up of all the people related to a specific individual in a bilateral kinship system |
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ambilineal descent |
a form of bilateral descent in which an individual may choose to affiliate with either the father's or the mother's descent group |
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lineal kin |
kin related in a single, unbroken line, such as grandfather-father-son |
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collateral kin |
kin descended from a common ancestor but not in a direct ascendant or descendent line; such as siblings or cousins |
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affinal kin |
relatives by marriage; in-laws |
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bifurcation |
a principle of classifying kin under which different kinship terms are used for the mother's side of the family and the father's side of the family |
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parallel cousins |
the children of a parent's same-sex siblings |
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cross-cousins |
the children of a parent's sibling of the opposite sex |
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transnationalism |
the pattern of close ties and frequent visits by immigrants to their home countries |
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transmigrant |
immigrants who maintain close relations with their home countries |