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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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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