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    KINSHIP

    RELATIONSHIP THROUGH BIRTH AND MARRIAGE


    TYPES OF KINSHIP

     Related by consanguinity and affinity


     Consanguineal kin group
     Affinal kin group
    CONSANGUINEAL KIN GROUP
     Blood relationship
     Born or adopted in family
     Father, mother, son, daughter
    AFFINAL KINSHIP
     Linked by marital bond – affinal kins
     Husband, wife, wife’s mother, daughter’s husband
    FAMILY OR ORIENTATION
     A person is born
    FAMILY OF PROCREATION
     By marriage – procreating in it
    DEGREE OF KINSHIP

     Degree of distance between kins classified


    PRIMARY KINSHIP
     Belong to the same nuclear family
     Father, mother, brother, sister
     Family of orientation
     Husband, wife, son, daughter
     Family of procreation
    SECONDARY KINSHIP
     Mother’s brother, father’s sister, wife’s father, son’s wife- secondary relatives
    TERTIARY KINSHIP

     Father is a primary kin


     Grandfather – secondary kin
     Great grandfather – tertiary kin
    DISTANT RELATIVES
     All other relatives who are more remote than tertiary relatives are “
    distant relatives”
    CHARACTERISTICS

     All types of kin relatives


     Provide mutual aid and security to its members
     Blood relatives closer to the person
    FUNCTIONS OF KINSHIP
     To transmit status and property
     Kins invited for marriage ceremonies
    KINSHIP TERMS AND TERMINOLOGY

     Kinship terms used to address a kin


     Kinship terminology classified in to :
    Classificatory system
     The term uncle – classificatory term
     Father’s brother, mother’s brother
    Descriptive system
     Father, mother – descriptive terms
     One term refers to only one relation
    KINSHIP USAFES

     Some usages regulate behaviour of kins


    AVOIDANCE
     To maintain distance
     Son’s wife is avoidance
    JOKING RELATIONSHIP
     Between a man and his wife’s sister
    TEKNONYMY
     Addressing a person by relationship
     Mother of child
    DEFERENCE
     Showing respect by using respectful terminology
     Husband highly respected by the wife
    AVUNCLATE
     When maternal uncle has pre-eminent place in the life of
    AMILATE
     Father’s sister gets more respect than mother
    COUVADE
     Whenever the wife gives birth to child, husband observes some taboos
     Taking strict diet
    KINSHIP AND DESCENT

     There are three ways of tracing descents


    Unilinear descent or one line descent
     Through one sex or line
     It is of three types
    Patrilineal or agnatic descent – descent traced through male line
    Matrilineal or uterine descent – descent traced through females i.e. mother only
    Bilineal descent ( double or duo lineal descent)
    - In India partrilineal, matrilineal systems
    - Nayars of Kerala – Matrilineal descent

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