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Kinship Flashcards

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Kinship systems

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Those relationships found in all societies that are based on blood or marriage

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Consaguineal kin

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Related through birth or blood

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Affinal kin

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Those to whome we are related through blood

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Fictive Kin

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Relationship between individuals who recognize kinship obligations although the relationship is not based on affinal or consaguineal ties

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Functions of Kinship

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  • Maintain integrity of indivisible resources
  • provides a larger labor pool than can a household
  • means of claming support and protection from kin
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Vertical function

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provides social continuity by binding together a number of successive generations

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Horizontal Function

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Solidification or trying together a society horizontall (Single generatio)

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Principles of kinship Classification

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  • Family side
  • Lineality vs. collaterality
  • age (relative)
  • Generations
  • Social Conditions
  • Sex of connecting relative
  • Sex or gender
  • Consanguineal vs. Affinal
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Descent

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The rules a culture uses to establish affiliations with one’s parents and can be traced back over several generations

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Descent group

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A publicly recognized social entity such that being a lineal descendant of a particular real or mythical ancestor is a criterion of membership

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Reles of descent groups

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  • Stong sense of identity
  • Share communially held property
  • provide mutual economic assistance
  • Engage in mutual civic and relious ceremonies
  • Serve as mechanism for inheriting property and politcal office
  • Important in controlling behavior
  • can regulate marriage
  • important for structuring politcal units
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Rules of Descent

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  • Unilineal descent
  • Cognatic descent
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Unilineal Descent

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Descent that establishes group membership exclusively through either the mother’s or the father’s line

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Matilineal descent groups

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Patrilineal Descent groups

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Kinship structure

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Legend for kinship nomenclature

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Types of unlineal descent groups

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  • Lineage
  • Clan
  • Phratry
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Lineage

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  • A lineal descent group whose members can trace their line of descent to a known ancesters
  • Lineages are corporate entities
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Clan

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A noncorporate descent groups whose members claim descent from a common ancestor without actually knowing the genealogical links to that ancestor

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Phratry

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A unlineal descent group composed of two or more clans that claim to be of common ancestry

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Lay out of Clan, Phratry

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Cognatic Descent

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  • Forms of nonlineal descent
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Three types of Cognatic Descent

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  • Double descent
  • Ambilineal Descent
  • Bilateral descent
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Double Descent

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A person is part of both parents lineage but the person will inherit some part from father and some parts from mother

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Ambilineal descent

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Person will inherit from either mother or father side but not both (This could cause weaken loyality)

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Bilateral Descent

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Person will inherit from both parents equally

(usually seen in neuclear families, nomadic)

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Bilateral Descent

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A kinship system whereby individuals emphasize both their mother’s kin and their father’s in relatively equally

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Kindred

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All relatives a person recognized in a bilateral kinship system

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What are the 6 basic system of kinship classification

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  • Iroquois
  • Eskimo
  • Crow
  • Hawaiian
  • Omaha
  • Sudanese
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What type of kinship is this?

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Eskimo kinship system

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What type of kinship is this?

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Hawaiian kinship System

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What type of kinshp is this?

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Sudanese Kinship System

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