Anthropology Ch.9 Vocabulary

Kindship system in which individuals trace their kinship relationships equally through both parents

A named unilineal descent group, some of whose members are unable to trace how they are related, but who still believe themselves to be kinfolk.

Form of descent in which relationships may be traced through both females and males

A group of relatives created by tracing relationships throuhg both females and males.

The idea that the kinship relationships a given people recognize do not perfectly reflect biological relationships; reflected in the kinship terminology.

A group whose members believe themselves to be descended from a common ancestor.

Kinship terminology system in which no nuclear family kin term is extended to more distant relatives; nuclear familiy members have unique terms.

How a people trace their descent from previous generations.

Kin terminology system in which only sex and generation are relevant in defining labeled categories of relatives.

Kinship terminology system in which Ego calls parallel cousins the same term as siblings, calls father's brother the same as father, calls mother's sister the same as mother and uses unique terms for the children of father's sister and mother's brother.

All the bilateral relatives of an individual.

The words (labels) that an individual uses to refer to his or her relatives of various kinds.

The logically consistent system by which people classify their relatices into labeled categories, or into "kinds of relatives"

A unilineal descent group larger than an extended family whose members can actually trace how they are related.

Form of decent in which individuals trace their primary kinship relationships through their mothers

Form of descent in which individuals do not regularly associate with either matrilineal or patrilineal relatices, but make choices about whom to live with, whose land to use and so forth.

Kinship terminology system associated with patrilineal descent in which Ego's mother's relatives are distinguished only by their sex.

Form of descent in which individuals trace their most important kinship relationships through their fathers.

Descent through the "one line", including patrilineal and matrilineal descent.

A group of relatives, all of whom are related through only one sex.

Family grouping formed by tracing kinship relationships through only one sex, etiher female or male, but not both.