The named systems of kin classification anthropologists use to compare how societies label relatives, refined from Lewis Henry Morgan comparative survey and standardized as the six classificatory types: Eskimo, Hawaiian, Sudanese, Iroquois, Crow and Omaha. Belongs here: a named terminology system itself, the pattern by which a language sorts relatives into address categories. Does not belong here: a specific rule about who a person may marry or where a couple lives after marriage, grouped under Marriage Systems or Postmarital Residence Patterns, since a terminology system describes classification of kin, not marriage or residence choice.
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1. Wikipedia: Kinship
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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