Definition of Kinship. Meaning of Kinship. Synonyms of Kinship

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Definition of Kinship

Kinship
Kinship Kin"ship, n. Family relationship.

Meaning of Kinship from wikipedia

- In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact...
- Look up kinship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kinship is a relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin, through either biological...
- Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from...
- Hokkien kinship system (simplified Chinese: 亲情; traditional Chinese: 親情; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhin-chiâⁿ) is the kinship system for Hokkien users. Hokkien distinguishes...
- kinship is a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor counted through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where...
- Irish kinship is a system of kinship terminology (descended from the original Celtic practices) which shows a bifurcate collateral pattern. This system...
- point of view. The study of kinship and social organization is a central focus of sociocultural anthropology, as kinship is a human universal. Sociocultural...
- Milk kinship, formed during nursing by a non-biological mother, was a form of fostering allegiance with fellow community members. This particular form...
- (such as food); the giving and receiving of care and nurture (nurture kinship); jural rights and obligations; also moral and sentimental ties. Thus,...
- Iroquois kinship (also known as bifurcate merging) is a kinship system named after the Haudenosaunee people, also known as the Iroquois, whose kinship system...