ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Consanguinity
28 Apr 2016
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Kinship is about how we classify our relatives, or kin. We are related by: blood consanguineal kin. Nominal kin relatives that we have no contact with (may be deceased). Effective kin relatives we meet regularly (at weddings, funerals, reunions, birthday parties) but don"t see daily. Intimate kin relatives we live with, or spend the most time with, and have closest relationships. Fictive kin people not related by blood or marriage that we treat as kin. Determines the group of relatives (lineage) you belong to. Unilineal descent membership through one of male or female line of ancestors. Bilateral (aka double) through both male and female lines (common in europe and north america). Ambilineal through either male or female lines (you choose). We emphasize similarities and differences in kin by the names we call them. Socially equivalent people are named with the same kin term. W - wife (these labels used infrequently, when gender is unknown. )
