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Marriage that is promoted to ensure reproduction of a groups own membership or alliances.
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The principle that a descent group is formed by people who believe they are related to each other by connections made through their mothers and fathers equally.
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Criteria of relatedness - direct (linking) or indirect (linked) relative.
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Kinship relationship that is based on descent (blood)
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A form of marriage exchange in which the groom works for his parents-in-law for a certain period of time before returning home with the bride.
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Criteria of relatedness - relation on mother's or father's side.
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In all societies some kin (nuclear family) are off limit as spouses/sexual partners.
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Descent is through the mother’s line.
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The transfer of certain symbolically important goods from the family of the groom to the family of the bride representing compensation to the wife’s lineage for the loss of her labour and for child-bearing capacities.
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The transfer of certain symbolically important goods from the family of the bride to the family of the groom representing compensation to the groom’s lineage for the loss of his labour.
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Criteria of relatedness - place in descent group.
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The marriage of a woman to more than one man.
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Marriage within a defined social group.
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Non-kin forms of social organization composed of young men born within a specified time span, which are part of a sequence of age sets that proceeds through youth, maturity, and old age.
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A marriage pattern in which a person may be married to only one person at a time.
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A sense of being related to another person. Social relationships that are prototypically derived from the universal human experience of mating, birth, and nurturance.
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Marriage outside a defined social group.
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Kinship relationship that is based on marriage.
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A descent group composed of consanguineal members, who believe they can trace their descent from known ancestors.
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The transfer of wealth from parents to their child (usually a daughter) at the time of the child’s marriage.
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A descent group formed by members who believe they have a common (sometimes mythical) ancestor, even if they cannot specify the genealogical links.
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In a kinship diagram, indicates the point of reference in a kinship relationship.
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