kinship terminology Flashcards
bilocal residence
married couple living with or near parents
cross cousins
the child of opposite sex siblings
cross cousin marriage
marriage between father’s sister’s chilld and mother’s brother’s child
patrilineal descent
descent from an ancestor down through series of male links
matrilineal descent
descent from an ancestor down through series of female links
ego
point taken in describing a relationship
endogamy
marriage within a group
exogamy
marriage outside the group
patrilocal
female moves to husband’s household after marriage
matrilocal
male moves to wife’s household after marriage
neolocal
single separate household families
type of kinship: consanguineous
blood related
ttype of kinship: affinial
through marriage/alliance
generalised exchange
marriage exchange where women circulate within groups
levirate
dead man’s brother succeeds to his status as husband by marrying his widow
matriarchy
rule of the family by the mother
moiety
devision of a society into two social categories
monogamy
marriage limited to one spouse at a time
polygamy
plural marriage at the same time
type of polygamy: polygny
one male and two or more females
type of polygamy: polyandry
one female married to two or more males
restricted exchange
marriage exchange restricted to involve two groups exchanging directly
relatedness
any kind of relation
Bilateral
kinship traced through both father and mother
