Key Concepts of Cultural Anthropology
Chapter 11 Marital Residence and Kinship

Key Terms
Affinal kinMatrilineal descent
Ambilineal descentMatrilocal residence
Avunculocal residenceMoiety
Bilateral kinshipNeolocal residence
Clan or sibPatriclans
Consanguineal kinPatrilineal descent
Descriptive termPatrilocal residence
Double descent or double unilineal descentRules of descent
EgoSiblings
KindredTotem
LineageUnilocal residence
MatrilineageUnilineal descent



Suggested Internet & InfoTrac College Edition Exercises
@ Look at website: http://www.nndata.no/home/jborgos/jborgose.htm for a description of Norwegian naming and how it relates to genealogical reconstruction.
@ Learn more about Kinship and social organization using the interactive website at http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/kintitle.html.

 

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Updated August 2006