kinship
91Cousin marriage — Charles Darwin and his wife Emma were first cousins. Cousin marriage is marriage between two cousins. In various jurisdictions and cultures, such marriages range from being considered ideal and actively encouraged, to being uncommon but still… …
92Celtic law — A number of law codes have in the past been in use in Celtic countries. While these vary considerably in details, there are certain points of similarity. The Brehon Laws governed everyday life and politics in Ireland until the Norman invasion of… …
93Structural anthropology — is based on Claude Levi Strauss s idea that people think about the world in terms of binary opposites such as high and low, inside and outside, person and animal, life and death and that every culture can be understood in terms of these opposites …
94anthropology — anthropological /an threuh peuh loj i keuhl/, anthropologic, adj. anthropologically, adv. /an threuh pol euh jee/, n. 1. the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs… …
95Alliance theory — The Alliance Theory (or General Theory of Exchanges) is the name given to the structural method of studying kinship relations. It finds its origins in Claude Lévi Strauss s Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949), and is opposed to the… …
96Grandfamilies — Grandfamily is a recently coined term that refers to a family where grandparents, great grandparents, other relatives, or close family friends are raising a child because the biological parents are unwilling or unable to do so. Legal custody of a …
97inheritance — /in her i teuhns/, n. 1. something that is or may be inherited; property passing at the owner s death to the heir or those entitled to succeed; legacy. 2. the genetic characters transmitted from parent to offspring, taken collectively. 3.… …
98Meo — For other uses, see Meos. मेव Total population 45,000,000 Regions with significant populations  Pakistan • …
99Matrilineality — is a system in which descent is traced through the mother and maternal ancestors. Matrilineality is also a societal system in which one belongs to one s matriline or mother s lineage, which can involve the inheritance of property and/or titles. A …
100David M. Schneider — David Murray Schneider (November 11, 1918, Brooklyn, New York October 30, 1995, Santa Cruz, California) was an American cultural anthropologist, best known for his studies of kinship and as a major proponent of the symbolic anthropology approach… …
