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| the socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of different ways |
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| social relationships that are prototypical derived from the universal human experiences of mating, birth, an nurturance |
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| an institution that transforms the status of the participants, carries implications, about permitted sexual access, perpetuates social patterns through the birth of offspring, creates relationships between the kin of partners, and is symbolically marked. |
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| the principle based on culturally recognized parent-child connections that define the social categories to which people belong. |
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| the principle based on culturally recognized parent-child connections that define the social categories to which people belong. |
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| kinship relationships based on nurturance, often in the absence of other connections based on mating or birth. |
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| observable physical characteristics that distinguish two kinds of humans. females an males, needed for biological reproduction. |
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| the cultural construction of beliefs and behaviors considered appropriate for each sex. |
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| the principle that a descent group is forned by people who believe that they are related to each other by connects made through their mothers and fathers equally (sometimes called cognatic descent) |
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| the consanguineal members of descent groups who believe they can trace their descent from known ancestors |
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| a social group formed by people connected by the father-child links |
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| a social group formed by people connected by mother-child links |
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| a descent group formed by members who believe they have a common (sometimes mythical) ancestor, even if they cannot specify the genealogical links. |
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| a mode of hierarchial social organization in which groups beyond the most basic emerge only in opposition to other groups of the same hierachical level |
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| the transfer of certain symbolically important goods from the family of the groom to the family of the bride on the occasion of their marriage. It represents compensation to the wife's lineage for the loss of her labor and childbearing capacities. |
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| connection through marriage |
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| a criterion employed in the analysis of kinship terminologies in which a distinction is made between kin who are believed to be in a direct line and those who are "off to one side", linked to the speaker by a lineal relative |
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| a criterion employed in the analysis of kinship terminologies in which kinship terms referring to the mother's side of the family are distinguished from those referring to the father's side |
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| the children of a person's parent' same-gender siblings (a father's brother's children or a mother's sister's children) |
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| the children of a person's parents' opposite-gender siblings (a father's sister's children or a mother's brother's children) |
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| social positions people are assigned at birth |
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| social positions people may attain later in life, often as the result of their own (or other people's) efforts |
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| an institution that transforms the status of the participants, carries implications about permitted sexual access, perpetuates social patterns through the birth of offspring, creates relationships between the kin of partners, and is symbolically marked |
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| kinship connections through marriage, or affinity |
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| consanguineal relationships |
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| kinship connections based on descent |
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| marriage within a defined social group |
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| marriage outside a defined social group |
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| a postmarital residence pattern in which a married couple sets up an independent household at a place of their own choosing |
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| a postmarital residence pattern in which a married couple lives with (or near) the husband's father |
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| a postmarital residence pattern in which a married couple lives with (or near) the wife's mother |
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| a postmarital residence pattern in which a married couple lives with (or near) the husband's mother's brother |
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| a marriage pattern in which a person may be married to only one spouse at a time |
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| a marriage pattern in which a person may be married to more than one spouse at a time |
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| a marriage pattern in which a man may be married to more than one wife at a time |
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| a marriage pattern in which a woman may be married to more than one husband at a time |
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| the wealth transferred, usually from the parents to their daughter, at the time of her marriage |
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| minimally, a woman and her dependent children |
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| a family based on marriage, at a minimum, a husband and a wife and their children |
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| a woman and her children: the husband/father may be occasionally present or completely absent |
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| a family pattern made up of two generations: the parents and their unmarried children |
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| a family pattern made up of three generations living together: parents, married children, and grandchildren |
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| a family pattern made up of brothers and their wives or sisters and their husbands (along with their children) living together |
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| a family created when previously divorced or widowed people marry, bringing them children from previous families |
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| the relatively "unofficial" bonds that people construct with one another that tend to be personal, affective, and often a matter of choice |
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| emotional or affectional relationships between sexual partners and the physical activities they engage in one another |
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