Search for: Kinship Terminology “Cross-cultural comparisons of categories of kin terms (words used to identify relatives) can sometimes reveal basic similarities and differences in worldview and experience” (Bonvillain 2010: 201). It makes little sense in indigenous terms to label some of these activities as social and others as biological. He refrains from active work and takes sick diet. It defines proper, acceptable role relationship between father and daughter, between brother and sister, between son-in-law and mother-in-law and between fellow lineage members and clansmen. He is referred to by her as the father of Guddu or Tunnu. They are not our primary kin but are the primary kin of our primary kin, hence our secondary kin. The six types (Crow, Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Omaha, Sudanese) that are not fully classificatory (Dravidian, Australian) are those identified by Murdock (1949) prior to Lounsbury's (1964) rediscovery of the linguistic principles of classificatory kin terms. Siblings are the children of the same parents. For example, in In many societies where kinship connections are important, there are rules, though they may be expressed or be taken for granted. The father is my primary kin and his brother is the primary kin of father. Kinship, Schneider argues, has not been approached from this perspective, and so “kinship . There are four main headings that anthropologists use to categorize rules of descent. Father, mother and children are, however, also performatively related through the giving and receiving of "nurture" (fitezana). Under descriptive system one term refers to only one relation. Among Angami Naga, the same term is used for members of opposite sexes. Here it may be noted that in English language a number of relations created by marriage are referred by the same term. (Carsten 1995, 236)Yet just as fathers are not simply made by birth, neither are mothers, and although mothers are not made by "custom" they, like fathers, can make themselves through another type of performatively constituted relation, the giving of "nurture". According to the Dictionary of Anthropology, kinship system includes socially recognized relationships based on supposed as well as actual genealogical ties. , When a special role given to the father’s sister it is known as amitate. Thus, people of various age groups are designated by the same term. the word 'sister' denotes the relationship between the speaker or some other entity and another feminine entity who shares the parents of the former), trirelational kin-terms--also known as triangular, triadic, ternary, and shared kin-terms--denote a relationship between three distinct entities. harvnb error: no target: CITEREFHouseman_and_White1998b ( harvnb error: no target: CITEREFHousemanWhite1998a (Lévi-Strauss, Claude. (Schneider 1984, 163)Schneider also dismissed the sociobiological account of biological influences, maintaining that these did not fit the ethnographic evidence (see more below). Another association is that The evolutionary psychology account of biology continues to be rejected by most cultural anthropologists. Morgan made an important study of kinship terms. It reviews classic debates on descent and marriage, the role of gender studies in rethinking kinship categories and the more recent Therefore, father’s brother is my secondary kin, the primary kin of primary kin. Both the systems are found prevalent. The relations based on blood or marriage may be close or distant. An explanation is that kinship does not form clear boundaries and is centered differently for each individual. Thus, son, brother, sister, uncle (chacha), elder uncle (taoo), nephew and cousin are consanguineous kin. Similarly the Sema Naga of Assam use aja for mother, father’s brother’s wife, mother’s sister.