Linked from

The 72 pages that link to Kinship, each with the reason it gives.

• Indigenous peoples of the AmericasRelated: Kinship structures community, belonging, and relations to land in many distinct societies.

• Structural anthropologyRelated: Kinship is one of the central domains structural anthropologists analyze.

• MarriageNarrower topic: Marriage creates or reshapes ties between families and kin groups.

• GenealogyNarrower topic: Genealogy traces kinship across generations and distinguishes different kinds of family connection.

• Claude Lévi-StraussRelated: Kinship relations were among his central examples of cultural structures.

• Cultural anthropologyRelated: Kinship systems show how cultures define obligations and belonging.

• FriendshipCompared with: Friendship is ordinarily chosen rather than assigned through family or descent.

• FamilyNarrower topic: Kinship supplies many of the relationships through which family membership is defined.

• TabooNarrower topic: Rules about marriage and sexual relations often depend on culturally defined kinship boundaries.

• Rite of passageRelated: Marriage and birth rituals can publicly alter kin relationships and obligations.

• Ancestor venerationNarrower topic: Descent and family membership often determine who performs rites and for whom.

• TotemismRelated: Totemic identities can shape descent, marriage rules, and relations among groups.

• Tribal confederationRelated: Kinship ties can support trust and obligations among groups that join a confederation.

• EndogamyRelated: Marriage within a group shapes alliance, descent, and family networks.

• History of the familyRelated: Kinship systems define who counts as family and what obligations connect them.

• PatrilinealityNarrower topic: Patrilineality organizes one dimension of kinship, rather than every family relationship.

• ExogamyRelated: Kinship systems define the relatives and groups from whom marriage may be prohibited.

• Blood feudNarrower topic: Kinship defines who may be expected to avenge or answer for an attack.

• Chosen familyNarrower topic: Chosen family extends kinship beyond biological descent and legally recognized ties.

• ClanNarrower topic: Clans organize relationships through shared descent and recognized family ties.

• Historical anthropologyRelated: Tracing kinship reveals how families organized property, authority, and obligation over time.

• Kinship terminologyNarrower topic: The broader system of relationships that kinship terms name and organize.

• Social anthropologyBroader topic: Kinship systems show how societies define belonging, obligation, and inheritance.

• ChiefdomRelated: Descent and marriage can define chiefly legitimacy, alliances, and obligations.

• Nuclear familyNarrower topic: The nuclear family is one small arrangement within broader systems of recognized relationships.

• Alliance theoryNarrower topic: Alliance theory treats kinship as a system of relations extending beyond descent.

• EthnologyBroader topic: Kinship systems provide comparable evidence about family, inheritance, and alliance.

• Gayle RubinRelated: Systems of kinship are central to Rubin’s account of how gender relations are reproduced.

• Edmund LeachRelated: Kinship systems were central evidence in Leach’s analyses of social organization.

• Incest tabooNarrower topic: Incest rules depend on which relationships a society recognizes as kinship.

• SurnameNarrower topic: A surname can signal a connection within a wider kinship network.

• Arranged marriageNarrower topic: Marriage arrangements often connect families and kin groups as well as spouses.

• BridewealthRelated: Bridewealth links two kin groups through obligations that can continue after the wedding.

• Descent groupNarrower topic: Descent groups formalize kinship through shared ancestry.

• Extended familyNarrower topic: Extended families are organized through recognized relationships among relatives.

• Gender historyRelated: Kinship rules organize gendered authority, inheritance, and family obligations.

• MatriarchyNarrower topic: Matriarchy is often analyzed through kinship, but kinship alone does not specify who rules.

• Feminist anthropologyRelated: Kinship systems organize inheritance, care, marriage, and gendered obligations.

• Political anthropologyRelated: Kinship can organize leadership, obligation, alliance, and access to political resources.

• Sociology of the familyNarrower topic: Family analysis often begins by asking which relationships count as kin.

• Bride priceNarrower topic: Bride price operates within relationships between the families and kin groups involved.

• GenerationNarrower topic: Kinship includes relationships beyond the parent-child steps that define generations.

• W. H. R. RiversNarrower topic: Rivers’s genealogical research made kinship a central subject of systematic anthropology.

• Cultural universalBroader topic: All known societies organize relationships among relatives, though kinship rules vary.

• Fictive kinshipNarrower topic: Fictive kinship extends the social reach of kinship beyond biological and legal relations.

• Marshall SahlinsRelated: Kinship was an early focus of Sahlins’s comparative anthropology.

• AsabiyyahRelated: Kinship can ground asabiyyah, but the concept concerns solidarity rather than relatedness alone.

• Robert LowieRelated: Lowie’s comparative work examined how kin relations organize social life.

• Eric WolfRelated: Wolf examined how kinship relations could organize labor and access to resources.

• House societyNarrower topic: House society developed as an alternative to treating kinship as only descent or marriage.