Definition of Kinship. Meaning of Kinship. Synonyms of Kinship

- 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...
- 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...
- Look up kinship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kinship is a relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin, through either biological...
- Milk kinship, formed during nursing by a non-biological mother, was a form of fostering allegiance with fellow community members. This particular form...
- Fictive kinship (less often, fictional kinship) is a term used by anthropologists and ethnographers to describe forms of kinship or social ties that are...
- Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship. Different societies classify...
- Iroquois kinship (also known as bifurcate merging) is a kinship system named after the Haudenosaunee people, also known as the Iroquois, whose kinship system...
- 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...
- point of view. The study of kinship and social organization is a central focus of sociocultural anthropology, as kinship is a human universal. Sociocultural...