Institutions organizing family and descent at the level of society-wide institution rather than a specific named kinship rule or terminology: marriage as a socially recognized union, and the family as the basic kin-based institution of society. Belongs here: an institution-level account of family or marriage as a social structure. Does not belong here: a specific descent rule, residence pattern or terminology system, which belongs to the kinship-system type's own subcategory tree under Kinship and Family Systems rather than here.
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WikipediaKinship, kinship terminology systems section
The major patterns of kinship systems that are known which Lewis Henry Morgan identified through kinship terminology in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family are: Iroquois kinship (also known as "bifurcate merging") Crow kinship (an expansion of bifurcate merging) Omaha kinship (also an expansion of bifurcate merging) Inuit kinship (referred to by Morgan as "Eskimo kinship" and also referred to as "lineal kinship") Hawaiian kinship (also referred to as the "generational system") Sudanese kinship (also referred to as the "descriptive system")
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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