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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
04/14/2009

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Kinship system
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The totality of kin relations, kin groups, and terms for classifying kin in a society
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Kinship terminology
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The words used to identify different catergories of kin in a particular culture
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Genitor
Definition
a biological father
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Pater
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The socially designated fater of a child, who may or may not be the bio father
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Affinal
Definition
Relations by marriage (in laws)
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Succession
Definition
The transfer of office or social position between generations
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Descent
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The culturally establised affiliation between a child and one or noth parents
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Descent group
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A group of kin who are descendants of a common ancestor, extending beyond two generations.
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Unilineal descent
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a rule specifying that membership in a descent group is based on links through either the maternal or paternal line, but not both
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Patrilineal descent
Definition
A rule that affiliates a person to kin of both sexes related through males only.
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Matrilineal descent
Definition
A rule that affiliates a person to kin of both sexes related through females only.
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lineage
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a group of kin whose members trace descent from a known common ancestor.
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Clan
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kinship group who believe to be descende from a common ancestor but can't trace it through known relatives.
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Phratry
Definition
a unilineal descent group conposed of a number of clans whose members feel themselves to be closely related
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Totem
Definition
An animal, plant, or other aspect of the natural world held to be ancestral or to have other intimate relationships with members of a group.
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Double Descent
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The tracing of descent through both matrilineal and patrilineal links, each of which is used for different purposes
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Nonunilineal descent
Definition
Any system of descent in which both father's and mother's lineages have equal claim to the individual
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Cognatic descent
Definition
any nonunilineal system of descent
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Bilateral descent
Definition
System of descent under which individuals are equally affiliated with their mothers' and fathers' descent group.
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Kindred
Definition
A unique kin network made up of all the people related to a specific individual in a bilateral kinship system.
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Rammage
Definition
A kinship group produced by an ambilineal descent system
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Ambilineal descent
Definition
A form of bilateral descent in which an individual may choose to affiliate with either the father's or mother's descent group.
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Lineal kin
Definition
Blood relations linked through descent, such as ego, Ego's mother, Ego's grandmother and daughter.
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Collateral kin
Definition
Kin descended from a common ancestor but not in a direct ascendent or descendent line, such as siblings and cousins.
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Consanguinity
Definition
Blood ties between people
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Bifurcation
Definition
A principle of classifying kin under which different kinship terms are used for the mother's and father's side
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