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| having more than one wife |
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| having more than one husband |
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| two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption |
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| people who occupy the same housing unit |
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| a family consisting of a husband, wife, and children |
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| a nuclear family plus other relatives |
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| the family in which a person grows up |
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| the family formed when a couple's first child is born |
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| a groups approved mating arrangements, usually marked by some ritual of some sort |
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| the practice of marrying into one's own group |
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| the practice of marrying outside one's group |
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| the rule that prohibits sex and marriage among designated relatives |
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| how kinship is traced over generations |
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| a system of reckoning decent that counts both the father’s and mother’s side |
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| a system of reckoning decent that counts the father’s side |
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| a system of reckoning decent that counts only the mother’s side |
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