kinship

thumb|upright=1.3|A multi-generational extended family in [[Chaghcharan, Ghor Province, Afghanistan]]

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Kinship refers to the relationships between people who are connected through family ties, whether by blood, marriage, or social bonds. It matters because these family connections shape how people organize their lives, share resources, care for one another, and pass down cultural traditions across generations.

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Commons category: Kinship
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Contents

Basic concepts
Family types
Terminology
Tri-relational kin-terms
Kin-based group terms and pronouns
Descent
Descent rules
Descent groups
Lineages, clans, phratries, moieties, and matrimonial sides
House societies
Marriage (affinity)
Alliance (marital exchange systems)
History
Morgan's early influence
Kinship networks and social process
"Kinship system" as systemic pattern
Conflicting theories of the mid 20th century
Recognition of fluidity in kinship meanings and relations
Schneider's critique of genealogical concepts
Post-Schneider
Biology, psychology and kinship
Nonreductive biology and nurture kinship
Evolutionary psychology
Extensions of the kinship metaphor
Fictive kinship
Detailed terms for parentage
Composition of relations
See also
References
Bibliography
External links

thumb|upright=1.3|A multi-generational extended family in [[Chaghcharan, Ghor Province, Afghanistan]]

In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. Anthropologist Robin Fox says that the study of kinship is the study of what humans do with these basic facts of lifemating, gestation, parenthood, socialization, siblingship, etc. Human society is unique, he argues, in that we are "working with the same raw material as exists in the animal world, but [we] can conceptualize and categorize it to serve social ends". These social ends include the socialization of children and the formation of basic economic, political and religious groups.