This study guide covers the "Family, Gender and Kinship Systems" section of UC Irvine's Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology course. Can also be used as flashcards; terms and definitions format.
Family, Gender, and Kinship systems
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• Relationships based on
social groups; lacks inter-
est in biological relations
because such things have
Fijian Kinship
little meaning in Fiji public
affairs.
• "Radically free" of biology
and genealogy.
Kin outside of a person's
own line of descent from
Collateral Kin
parent to child (i.e. siblings
and cousins).
Kin related in a single un-
Lineal Kin broken line, such as grand-
father to father to son.
The study of symbols and
Symbolic Anthropology
meanings.
Relationships between
Kinship people who we consider
relatives. (general term)
A diagram of people relat-
Genealogy ed to each other through
sex and/or blood.
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