Studied by names the researcher or field most associated with documenting a kinship system. Wikipedia quotes "anthropologist Robin Fox" saying "the study of kinship is the study of what humans do with these basic facts of life -- mating, gestation, parenthood, socialization, siblingship." This dimension connects a kinship system to the scholarship built around it.
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1. Wikipedia: Kinship
WikipediaKinship, Family types section
Anthropologists most generally classify family organization as matrifocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a husband, his wife, and children; also called nuclear family); avuncular (a brother, his sister, and her children); or extended family in which parents and children co-reside with other members of one parent's family.
Kinship, lead section
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 meanings even within this discipline are often debated.
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