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Kinship and Family Systems

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General Reference

Society and Culture Atlas. "Kinship and Family Systems." Accessed September 4, 2026. https://society.interactiveatlas.org/sections/kinship-systems.

APA Style

Society and Culture Atlas. (n.d.). Kinship and Family Systems. Retrieved September 4, 2026, from https://society.interactiveatlas.org/sections/kinship-systems

BibTeX

@misc{societyandcultureatlas-kinship-and-family-systems,
  author = {Society and Culture Atlas},
  title = {Kinship and Family Systems},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://society.interactiveatlas.org/sections/kinship-systems},
  note = {Accessed September 4, 2026}
}

How descent is traced, how marriage is arranged, and how a family is structured, described through the Murdock kinship typology: terminology systems, descent systems, postmarital residence patterns, marriage systems and family structures. This band groups the atlas's kinship-system entities as a homepage navigation shelf. It excludes the peoples and cultures who practice a given system, filed instead under Social Groups, and it excludes the theorists who studied kinship, filed under Social Theorists.

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