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| refers to consanguineal relations and affinal relations. |
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| relationships based on parentage through descent. |
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| relationships based on relatedness through marriage. |
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| is the belief that certain persons play an important role in the creation, birth, and nurturance of certain children. |
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| restrict parental links exclusively to males or females. |
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| use both male and female parentage to establish any of the previously mentioned duties, rights, and privileges. |
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| is the reckoning of kinship evenly and symmetrically along maternal and paternal links in ascending and descending generations through individuals of both sexes. |
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| is the reckoning of kinship through either maternal or paternal links, depending on which kin group provides greater opportunities. |
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| traces descent matrilineally for some purposes and patrilineally for others. |
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| requires ego to follow the ascending and descending genealogical links through males only (the ego does have relatives of both genders). |
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| requires ego to follow the ascending and descending links through females only (males and females can be related matrilineally). |
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| are the children of ego's father's brother or mother's sister and are regarded as brothers and sisters. |
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| are the children of ego's father's sister or mother's brother and are regarded as affines, or potential marriage mates. |
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| consists of ego's close bilateral relatives, who form a group that comes together for such occasions as when ego is born, marries, gives a feast, and so on. |
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| consists of all the descendents of an apical ancestor or ancestress who reckon descent through any combination of male or female links. |
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| have a clearly defined membership that delineates lineage members from nonmembers. |
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| allows closely related lineages to unite to oppose a threat from more distantly related lineage segments. |
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| Postmarital residence rules |
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| govern with whom or near whom a couple will reside after marriage and determine whether a couple will be surrounded by the husband's or wife's kin and what kind of support each can expect to have. |
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| means that a married couple elects to stay for short intervals between shifts of residence between the wife's kin and the husband's kin. |
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| is associated with warfare. |
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| is associated with long-distance trade and external welfare. |
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| maintains a male fraternal interest group in the residential core of the matrilineal descent group. Avunculocality thus provides the best two worlds for males who aspire to military and political leadership. |
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| is the kin terminological system with which most North Americans are familiar. Societies that use Inuit terminology generally lack corporate descent groups. The nuclear family stands out as a separate and functionally dominant productive and reproductive unit. Separate kin terms are used for nuclear family members that are not extended to any other kin type. |
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| the same term is applied to people inside and outside the nuclear family; a single term is used for all relatives of the same sex and generation. |
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| distinguishes between cross and parallel cousins and cross and parallel aunts and uncles. This pattern of merging occurs as a result of the shared membership of siblings in corporate unilineal descent groups and marriage alliances based on cross-cousin marriage between such groups. |
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| may be established through the negotiation of kinship when genealogical connections are lacking. People provoke relations that are defined by kinship role requirements, and these ties can be extended to others who become kin according to kinship rules. |
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