KINSHIP STUDIES

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KINSHIP STUDIES
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SUFFIXES

• Lineal line of descent
• Local place of residence
• Lateral of or relating to the side
• Archy government

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KIN TYPES

• Consanguineals
• Affinals
• fictive kin
• Lineals
• Collaterals

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DESCENT TERMS

• Bilateral
• Unilineal
• Matrilineal
• Patrilineal
• Cognatic

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KINSHIP TERMINOLOGIES

• Eskimo
• Iroquois
• Hawaiian
• Crow
• Omaha
• Sudanese

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cross relatives

• kin on each side, who are neither patrilineal or
  matrilineal
• cross cousins are of particular importance,
  especially for some marriage systems
• Cross cousins can be identified as the children
  of opposite sexed siblings (of a brother and
  sister) and parallel cousins as the children of
  same sexed siblings (of two brothers or two
  sisters).

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Endogamous Groups Marriage Partners
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Cousins Marriage Partners
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ESKIMO MARRIAGE PARTNERS
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EskimoSystem of kinship terminology

• all cousins lumped together under same term
• brother sister distinguished from cousins
• aunts uncles lumped, but distinguished from
  mother father
• not found with unilineal/ambilineal descent
  groups, but with bilateral kindred
• Anglo Canadian
• foraging groups

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Iroquois Marriage Partners
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Yanomamo Kin Terms (Iroquois)
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Iroquois System

• associated with unilineal descent
• father and fathers brother are referred to by
  single term
• mother and mothers sister referred to by a
  single term
• but fathers sister and mothers brother are
  given separate terms
• egos brothers sisters and parallel cousins
  (through linking parent) are referred to by same
  term
• cross cousins are distinguished
• often preferred spouses

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Crow Marriage Partners (Akan kin terms)
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Crow System - matrilineal descent (mirror image
of Omaha)

• mother mother's sister referred to by same term
• father father's brother father's sister's son
  referred to by same term (male members of my
  father's matrilineal group)
• father's sister father's sister's daughter
  referred to by same term (female members of my
  father's matrilineal group)
• the Hopi, for example
• emphasis on lineality

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Omaha
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Hawaiian Cognatic
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Hawaiian System - least complex

• all relatives of the same sex in the same
  generation are referred to by the same term
• Java
• north coast Salish of British Columbia
• large extended families, not unilineal descent
• often associated with ambilineal descent