Kin Relationships
It is the cultural interpretation of the universal experience of mating, birth and nurturance.
What is KINSHIP?
This term refers to culturally defined relationships based on birth and nurturance.
What is DESCENT?
This term refers to all the individuals who can specify a parent-child link that connects them to one another through a common ancestor.
What is LINEAGE?
It is sometimes assumed that these types of relationships are or should be a direct reflection of biology and genetics of human reproduction.
What are KINSHIP RELATIONSHIPS?
This term refers to the relationship between individuals who share a common ancestor either through mother or father
What is BILATERAL DESCENT?
This term refers to relationships and communities that are based on links that go back to mythical time and are communicated through oral stories and myths of origins and beginnings.
What is a CLAN?
This term refers to relationships that are created through marriage.
What are AFFINAL relationships?
Societies that trace significant kin relationships through either the mother or the father but not both.
What is UNILINEAL DESCENT?
This term refers to your first cousin who is the child of your father’s brother (paternal uncle’s child) or the child of your mother’s sister (maternal aunt’s child)
What is a PARALLEL COUSIN?
This term refers to relationships that are based on birth/blood relations.
What are CONSANGUINEAL relationships?
Tracing descent through father (father-child links to trace ancestry and claims rights and entitlements, and determine social roles and responsibilities; women in a Patrilineal society become incorporated into the lineage of the man to whom they are married).
What is PATRILINEAL DESCENT?
Your first cousin who is the child of your mother’s brother (maternal uncle’s child) or the child of your father’s sister (paternal aunt’s child).
What is a CROSS COUSIN?
This terms refers to individuals who are incorporated into and become a member of a kin group not by birth by means of culturally specific rituals of incorporation.
What is ADOPTION/ADOPTEES?
Tracing descent through mother (mother-child links to trace ancestry and claims rights and entitlements, and determine social roles and responsibilities; sister-brother pair (group of brothers and sisters connected through links made by women; most important man in a boy’s life is not his father but his mother’s brother; brothers control or share control of resources).
What is MATRILINEAL DESCENT?
This term refers to the understanding that a lineage has a single legal identity such that, to outsiders, all members of the lineage are equal in law to all others.
What is CORPORATE?