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| A culturally sanctioned union between two or more people that establishes certain rights and obligations between the people, between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws. Such marriage rights and obligations most often include, but are not limited to, sex, labor, property, childrearing, exchange, and status. |
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| Marriage in which both partners have just one spouse. |
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| A marriage form in which a man or a woman marries or lives with a series of partners in succession. |
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| Marriage of a man to two or more women at the same time; a form of polygamy. |
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| Marriage of a woman to two or more men at one time, a form polygamy. |
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| Marriage by proxy to the symbols of someone not physically present to establish the social status of a spouse and heirs. |
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| Marriage in which several men and women have sexual access to one another; also called co-marriage. |
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| Money or valuable goods paid by the groom or his family to the bride's family upon marriage; also called bride-price. |
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| A designated period of time when the groom works for his bride's family. |
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| Payment of a woman's inheritance at the time of her marriage, either to her or to her husband. |
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| Two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption. The family may take many forms, ranging from a single parent with one or more children, to a married couple or polygamous spouses with or without offspring, to several generations of parents and their children. |
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| The basic residential unit where economic production, consumption, inheritance, childrearing, and shelter are organized and carried out. |
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| A family established through marriage. |
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| A family of "blood relatives" consisting of related women, their brothers, and the women's offspring. |
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| A group consisting of one or two parents and dependent offspring, which may include a stepparent, stepsiblings, and adopted children. Until recently this term referred only to the father, mother, and child(ren) unit. |
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| Two or more closely related nuclear families clustered together in a large domestic group. |
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| A residence pattern in which a married couple lives in the husband's father's place of residence. |
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| A residence pattern in which a married couple lives in the wife's mother's place of residence. |
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| A residence pattern in which a married couple may choose either matrilocal or patrilocal residence. |
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| A pattern in which a married couple establishes the household in a local apart from either the husband's or the wife's relatives. |
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| A marriage arranged for the economic and political advantage of the family unit. |
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| Marriage involves a transfer of rights between families, including rights to property and rights over children as well as sexual rights. |
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