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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

• IncestNarrower topic: Incest rules depend on which family relationships a society recognizes.

• Levirate marriageNarrower topic: The obligation depends on how a community defines a deceased husband’s eligible male relatives.

• StepmotherNarrower topic: Stepmotherhood is a form of kinship created through marriage rather than descent.

• Lewis H. MorganNarrower topic: Morgan made systems of kin terms and relationships central evidence for studying societies.

• Sororate marriageNarrower topic: Sororate marriage operates within rules that define which relatives can marry and what obligations follow.

• StepfatherNarrower topic: Stepfatherhood is a form of socially recognized kinship that may not establish legal parentage.

• CousinNarrower topic: Cousins occupy a position in kinship networks through shared descent.

• DisownmentNarrower topic: Disownment challenges how kinship is recognized and maintained beyond biological ties.

• Edvard WestermarckNarrower topic: His account of marriage and incest relied on distinguishing social kinship from biological relatedness.

• Irawati KarveNarrower topic: Kinship was the central framework Karve used to compare families and communities across India.

• Niece and nephewNarrower topic: Niece and nephew are positions within a broader system of family relationships.

• Parent-in-lawNarrower topic: Parent-in-law is a form of kinship created through marriage rather than descent.