Typical region names a place where a given kinship system is actually practiced today. Wikipedia notes "the Khasi tribe holds the distinction of being one of the few remaining tribes that have a matrilineal society," based in "Meghalaya... north-eastern India." This dimension shows which regions still practice a given kinship system.
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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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