The English-language Wikipedia article on fictive kinship, kin-like ties not based on blood or marriage, with the compadrazgo godparenthood system as its central example. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictive_kinship
Source TypeEncyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Tier 3 (secondary reference): a general encyclopedia article used for standard, uncontested definitional and example claims. Sources
Wikipedia: Fictive Kinship
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Fictive kinship...is a term used by anthropologists and ethnographers to describe forms of kinship or social ties that are based on neither consanguineal (blood ties) nor affinal ("by marriage"), nor nursery (milk) ties.
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This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Kinship and Family Systems, 8 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 4 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
Well-attested
8Kinship and Family Systems
Scholarly debate
1Kinship and Family Systems
General References
4Kinship and Family Systems
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