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    In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact...
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  • kinship is a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor counted through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where...
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  • Look up kinship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kinship is a relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin, through either biological...
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  • Milk kinship, formed during nursing by a non-biological mother, was a form of fostering allegiance with fellow community members. This particular form...
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  • Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from...
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  • Fictive kinship is a term used by anthropologists and ethnographers to describe forms of kinship or social ties that are based on neither consanguineal...
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  • Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship. Different societies classify...
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    point of view. The study of kinship and social organization is a central focus of sociocultural anthropology, as kinship is a human universal. Sociocultural...
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  • moiety in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In the anthropological study of kinship, a moiety (/ˈmɔɪəti/) is a descent group that coexists with only one other...
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    Family (redirect from Kinship group)
    (such as food); the giving and receiving of care and nurture (nurture kinship); jural rights and obligations; also moral and sentimental ties. Thus,...
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