ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kinship Terminology, Kinship, Patrilineality
20 Mar 2016
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Kinship diagrams illustrate how people are related to each other. Kinship refers to relatedness, usually by descent or marriage (affinity). It refers to a way that social groups categorize on the basis of perceived relatedness. Although we commonly think of kinship in terms of biological relatedness (often in terms of shared blood), kinship is not always dictated by biology. Can also include fictive kin thinking of people that are not biologically related to them as members of their family (ex. godparents). Kinship diagrams are the main tool for charting kinship relations. Relationships in kinship diagrams are traced through a central individual labeled ego. Descent group permanent social unit whose members claim common ancestry. Often membership is determined at birth and is life-long. Lineage descent group whose members can demonstrate common descent from an apical ancestor (demonstrated descent) Clan descent group whose members claim common descent from an apical ancestor but cannot demonstrate it (stipulated descent)
