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    What Is Kinship

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    Kinship refers to culturally defined relationships between individuals thought of as family, whether through blood, marriage, or cultural norms like godparenthood. Kinship serves two main functions: vertically binding generations to ensure continuity, and horizontally tying people across generations through marriage practices and alliances. While kinship involves actual biological ties, much is culturally constructed, such as fictive kin who are treated as family.

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    Kinship refers to culturally defined relationships between individuals thought of as family, whether through blood, marriage, or cultural norms like godparenthood. Kinship serves two main functions: vertically binding generations to ensure continuity, and horizontally tying people across generations through marriage practices and alliances. While kinship involves actual biological ties, much is culturally constructed, such as fictive kin who are treated as family.

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    Kinship refers to culturally defined relationships between individuals thought of as family, whether through blood, marriage, or cultural norms like godparenthood. Kinship serves two main functions: vertically binding generations to ensure continuity, and horizontally tying people across generations through marriage practices and alliances. While kinship involves actual biological ties, much is culturally constructed, such as fictive kin who are treated as family.

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    What is kinship?

    • Culturally defined relationships between individuals who are commonly thought of as having
    family ties. • Although usually thought of in terms of biology, much of kinship is actually culturally
    constructed.

    Consanguineal relatives: people on both sides of family related to you by blood. 

    Affinal relatives: people who are related to you through marriage.

    Fictive kinship: patterned on kin-like relations but not actually based upon blood or marriage.
    Godparents/coparents (compadrazgo in Latin America), “aunts”, “uncles”, “brothers”, “sisters”.
    Adoption

    Functions of kinship

    1. Vertical function – binding together successive generations, thereby providing social continuity. •
    Passing on property, political office, & tradition.

    2. Horizontal function – tying people together across a single generation through marriage
    practices. • Kin groups usually practice some degree of exogamy – rule which states that you must
    marry outside a certain group. • People must normally look outside for marriage partners and
    create alliances with other groups. • Alliances can be useful for political, economic, ceremonial
    purposes.

    Meaning and Definition of Kinship;

    : Charles Winick has defined kinship as “Kinship system may include socially recognised
    relationships based on supposed as well as actual genealogical ties”.

    According to Redcliff Brown,” Kinship is the approved relation of lans for social purposes which is
    the basis of traditional relations in social institutions.

    ” According to Dr. Reverse, “Kinship is that relationship which can be fixed and described by
    genealogical medium”.

    “Kinship is a social recognition and expression of genealogical relationships. It is not only actual but
    may be based on supposed ties of blood.

    ” Lewis’ approach to kinship is genealogical or based on descent. Descent could be traced from
    mother or father, or in some cases, both. Lewis also says that kinship relations could also be
    extended to persons who are treated as being on par with blood or marital kin.

    A. R. Brown, who is credited to have conducted fieldwork among three tribes of western Australia
    (1913), has defined kinship as follows: “Kinship is genealogical relationship recognized for social
    purposes and made the basis of the customary relation of social relations.” Brown’s thesis is that
    kinship lies at the root of genealogical relations but its social extensions constitute the meaning of
    kinship. The importance of kinship, Brown further says, is reckoned on the occasions of various
    customs observed during births, marriages, deaths and festivals. Yet another definition of kinship is
    given by Charles Winick, who observes: “Kinship system may include socially recognized relationship
    based on supposed as well as actual geneologicalties.”

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