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KINSHIP STUDIES

KINSHIP STUDIES. SUFFIXES. Lineal – line of descent Local – place of residence Lateral – of or relating to the side Archy – government. KIN TYPES. Consanguineals Affinals fictive kin Lineals Collaterals. DESCENT TERMS. Bilateral Unilineal Matrilineal Patrilineal Cognatic.

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KINSHIP STUDIES

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  1. KINSHIP STUDIES

  2. SUFFIXES • Lineal – line of descent • Local – place of residence • Lateral – of or relating to the side • Archy – government

  3. KIN TYPES • Consanguineals • Affinals • fictive kin • Lineals • Collaterals

  4. DESCENT TERMS • Bilateral • Unilineal • Matrilineal • Patrilineal • Cognatic

  5. KINSHIP TERMINOLOGIES • Eskimo • Iroquois • Hawaiian • Crow • Omaha • Sudanese

  6. cross relatives • kin on each side, who are neither patrilineal or matrilineal • cross cousins are of particular importance, especially for some marriage systems • Cross cousins can be identified as the children of opposite sexed siblings (of a brother and sister) and parallel cousins as the children of same sexed siblings (of two brothers or two sisters).

  7. Endogamous Groups & Marriage Partners

  8. Cousins & Marriage Partners

  9. ESKIMO & MARRIAGE PARTNERS

  10. “Eskimo”System of kinship terminology • all cousins lumped together under same term • brother & sister distinguished from cousins • aunts & uncles lumped, but distinguished from mother & father • not found with unilineal/ambilineal descent groups, but with bilateral kindred • Anglo Canadian • foraging groups

  11. Iroquois & Marriage Partners

  12. Yanomamo Kin Terms (Iroquois)

  13. Iroquois System • associated with unilineal descent • father and father’s brother are referred to by single term • mother and mother’s sister referred to by a single term • but father’s sister and mother’s brother are given separate terms • ego’s brother’s sisters and parallel cousins (through linking parent) are referred to by same term • cross cousins are distinguished • often preferred spouses

  14. Crow & Marriage Partners (Akan kin terms)

  15. Crow System - matrilineal descent (mirror image of Omaha) • mother & mother's sister referred to by same term • father & father's brother & father's sister's son referred to by same term (male members of my father's matrilineal group) • father's sister & father's sister's daughter referred to by same term (female members of my father's matrilineal group) • the Hopi, for example • emphasis on lineality

  16. Omaha

  17. Hawaiian – Cognatic

  18. Hawaiian System - least complex • all relatives of the same sex in the same generation are referred to by the same term • Java • north coast Salish of British Columbia • large extended families, not unilineal descent • often associated with ambilineal descent

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