Prelims · 6 Indian Society · 6.5 Family, marriage and kinship

6.5.4 Kinship: descent, kin groups, degrees of kin and kinship usages

Kinship is the web of social relationships based on blood (consanguinity) and marriage (affinity); it fixes descent, inheritance, whom one may marry and how relatives must behave towards each other.

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  • Standard level
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Key terms

  • kinship
  • consanguineal
  • affinal
  • primary kin
  • secondary kin
  • tertiary kin
  • Murdock
  • patrilineal
  • matrilineal
  • bilateral
  • double descent
  • lineage
  • clan
  • phratry
  • moiety
  • kindred
  • classificatory
  • descriptive
  • Morgan
  • avoidance
  • joking relationship
  • teknonymy
  • avunculate
  • amitate
  • couvade
  • cross cousin
  • parallel cousin

What this note covers

  1. Core factsFoundation
  2. ExplainedStandard
  3. DeeperAdvanced
  4. AP angleStandard
  5. Mains writingMains writing
  6. Common trapsFoundation
  7. Quick revisionFoundation

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