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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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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
KINSHIP TERMINOLOGIES • Eskimo • Iroquois • Hawaiian • Crow • Omaha • Sudanese
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).
“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
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
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
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