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Wikipedia: Fictive Kinship

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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.

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Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictive_kinship
Source Type
Encyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
Tier 3 (secondary reference): a general encyclopedia article used for standard, uncontested definitional and example claims.
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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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Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)

This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Kinship and Family Systems, 6 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 3 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

Well-attested

7

Kinship and Family Systems

Scholarly debate

1

Kinship and Family Systems

General References

3

Kinship and Family Systems

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