Kinship system (original) (raw)

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(anthropology) the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture, including the terminology that is used and the reciprocal obligations that are entailed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("kinship system" is a kind of...):

arrangement; organisation; organization; system (an organized structure for arranging or classifying)

Domain category:

anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)

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