ANTH 1150 Chapter 9: Chapter 9
4 Dec 2016
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Kinship: the people we are related to through blood (consanguineal) and marriage (affinal). Fictive kinship: friends not biologically related but considered part of a kin group. Descent groups: any publicly recognized social entity requiring lineal descent from a particular real or mythical ancestor for membership. The lineage: a corporate descent group whose members trace their genealogical links to a common ancestor. Moiety: each group that results from a division of a society into two halves on the basis of descent. Kindred: a group of consanguineal kin linked by their relationship to one living individual; includes both maternal and paternal kin (bilateral descent). These people are related not to a common ancestor but, rather, to a living relative, here the sister and brother shown at the center of the bottom row. The eskimo system of kinship terminology emphasizes the nuclear family (surrounded by the red line). Symbols with the same letters are referred to in the same way by ego.
