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| "blood" relatives, or people related by birth |
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| in-laws, or people related by marriage |
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| a group of people who culturally conceive themselves to be relatives, cooperate in certain activities, and share a sense of identity as kinfolk. |
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| family group consisting of a married couple and their offspring. |
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| a group of related nuclear families |
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| a dwelling or compound usually inhabited by consanguineous and affinal relatives r fictive kin who cooperate and share resources; in some contexts, a kin group of one or more nuclear families living in the same physical space |
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| condition in which people who are not biologically related behave as if they are relatives of a certain type |
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| prohibition against sexual intercourse between certain kinds of relatives |
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| marriage rules prohibiting individuals from marrying a member of their own social group or category. |
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| marriage rules requiring individuals to marry some member of their own social group or category. |
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| each individual is allowed to have only one spouse at a time. |
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| one man is allowed to have multiple wives |
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| one woman is allowed to have multiple husbands |
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| several women and several men are married to done another simultaneously |
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| the relationships created between families or kin routs by intermarriage |
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| custom whereby a widow marries a male relative(usually a brother) of her excessed husband |
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| custom whereby a widower marries a female relative of his deceased wife |
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| custom in which a prospective groom and his relatives are required to transfer goods to the relatives of the bride to validate the marriage. |
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| custom in which a man spends a period of time working for the family of his wife |
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| custom in which the family of a woman transfers property or wealth to her and/or her husband's family upon her marriage. |
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| pastmarital residence pattern |
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| where the majority of newly married couples establish their own residence. |
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| residence form in which couples live with or near the husbands parents. |
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| residence form in which couples live with or near the wife's parents. |
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| residence form in which couples live with or near the wife's parents. |
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| postmarital residence in which couples move between the households of both sets of parents. |
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| residence form in which a couple establishes a separate household apart from both the husband's an the wife's parents. |
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| residence form in which couples live with or near the mother's brother of the husband. |
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| family group consisting of a mother and her children, with a male only loosely attached or not present at all. |
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| how a people trace their descent from previous generations. |
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| descent through "one line," including patrilineal and matrilineal descent. |
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| form of descent in which individuals trace their most important kinship relationships through their fathers |
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| form of descent in which individuals trace their primary kinship relationships through their mothers. |
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| a group whose members believe themselves to be descended fro a common ancestor. |
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| a group of relatives, all of whom are related through only one sex. |
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| unilineally extended families |
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| family grouping formed by tracing kinship relationships through only one sex, either female or male, but not both |
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| a unilineal descent group larger than an extended family whose members can actually trace how they are related. |
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| a named unilineal descent group, some of whose members are unable to trace how they are related, but who still believe themselves to be kinfolk. |
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| form of descent in which individuals do not regularly associate with either matrilineal orpatrilineal relatives, but make choices about whom to live with, whose land to use, and so forth. |
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| form of descent in which relationships may be traced through both females and males. |
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| a group of relatives created by tracing relationships through both females and males. |
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| kinship system in which individuals trace their kinship relationships equally through both parents. |
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| all the bilateral relatives of an individual |
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| the words (labels) that an individual uses to refer to his or her relatives of various kinds. |
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| the logically consistent system by which people classify their relatives into labeled categories or into "kinds of relatives" |
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| cultural construction of kinship |
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| the idea that the kinship relationships a given people recognize do not perfectly reflect biological relationships; reflected in the kinship terminology. |
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| kinship terminology system in which no nuclear family kin term is extended to more distant relatives; nuclear family members have unique terms. |
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| kin terminology system in which only sex and generation are relevant in defining labeled categories of relatives. |
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| kinship terminology system in which ego calls parallel cousins the same terms as siblings, calls fathers brother the same as father, calls mothers sister the same as mother, and uses unique terms for the children of fathers sister an mother brother. |
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| kinship terminology system associated with patrilineal descent in which ego's mothers relatives are distinguished only by their sex. |
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