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1
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Term used to describe a biological set of parents

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Genitor

2
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Term used to describe a social set of parents

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Pater

3
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A rule requiring marriage outside of a specified social or kinship group

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Exogamy

4
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A rule requiring marriage within a specified social or kinship group

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Endogamy

5
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A preferred form of marriage between either parallel or cross cousins

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Preferential Cousin Marriage

6
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The practice of a man marrying the widow of his deceased brother

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Levirate

7
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The practice of a woman marrying the husband of her deceased sister

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Sororate

8
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The marital practice of having only one spouse at a time

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Monogamy

9
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The marriage of a woman to two or more men at the same time

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Polyandry

10
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The marriage of man to two or more women at the same time

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Polygyny

11
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What is polygamy?

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Having two or more spouses at the same time

12
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What is polyamory?

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Intimate relationships between three or more people at the same time

13
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The transfer of goods from the groom’s lineage to the bride’s lineage to legitimize marriage

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Bridewealth

14
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Work or service performed for the bride’s family by the groom for a specified period of time either before or after the marriage

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Bride Service

15
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Goods or money transferred form the bride’s family to the groom or the groom’s family to legalize or legitimize marriage

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Dowry

16
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When the married couple lives or near the relatives of the husband’s father

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Patrilocal residence

17
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What is Matrilocal residence?

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The married couple lives with or near the relatives of the wife

18
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The married couple lives with or near the husband’s mother’s brother

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Avunculocal residence

19
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The married couple has a choice of living with either the relatives of the wife or the relatives of the husband

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Ambilocal residence

20
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What’s a Neolocal residence?

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The married couple establishes an independent place of residence away from the relatives of either spouse

21
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The family unit composed of a wife, husband, and children

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Nuclear Family

22
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The family that includes, in one household, relatives in addition to a nuclear family

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Extended Family

23
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Relationships between people based on blood or marriage

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Kinship

24
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What are the 8 principles of Kinship classification?

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Generation

Sex/Gender

Lineality/Collaterality

Blood vs. Marriage (Consanguineal vs. Affinal)

Relative age

Sex/gender of the connecting relative

Social Condition

Side of the family

25
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Descent traced through either a male line or female line, but not both

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Unilineal Descent

26
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A form of descent in which people trace their primary kin connections through their mothers

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Matrilineal Descent Group

27
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A form of descent in which people trace their primary kin relationships through their fathers

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Patrilineal Descent Group

28
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A system of governance whereby women rule over men or are empowered to make decisions over men

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Matriarchy

29
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A form of descent in which a person chooses to affiliate with a kin group through either the male or the female line

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Ambilineal Descent

30
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A type of kinship system in which individuals emphasize both their mothers kin and their father’s kin relatively equally

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Bilateral Descent