Family: GP Murdock (1949):1 "...a social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation, and reproduction." Others argue that the family should be considered as a kinship group and should not be confused with other social groups based on common residence (household) or function (domestic unit)
Family of Procreation: The nuclear family which Ego establishes by marriage, consisting of his/her "wife/husband", sons and daughter (GPM:13; NG-365). Contra. "Family of orientation"
Family of Orientation: The nuclear family into which Ego was born and reared, consisting of his father, mother, brothers and sisters (GPM: 13; NG-365). Contra. "Family of procreation"
Fictive Kinship: "A relationship, such as godparenthood, modeled on relations of kinship, but created by customary convention rather than the circumstances of birth." RK:149 Examples include "blood brothers", "godparents". ES:5. Some would make a distinction between "fictive" kin and "putative" kin, the latter including adopted children.
Filial Widow Inheritance: "The norm that allows a man to inherit his father's widows, except his own mother. It can occur only in polygynous tribes but even then is rare." ES:76.
Filiation: "Relationship to or through one's father and one's mother, or the basing of rights on this relationship." RK:149.
Fraternal Joint Family: "Consists of two or more brothers and their wives (and children); the bond of union is consanguineal." ES:76.
Fraternal Polyandry: "A family consisting of several brothers with one wife in common." ES:76. See "Adelphic Polyandry"
Generalized Exchange: A system of marriage exchange in which women are viewed as circulating within groups. Wife-givers cannot be wife-takers. RF:219.
Genitor: Biological father (genitrix = biological mother). Contra. "pater."
Genitrix: Biological mother (genitor = biological father). Contra. "mater".
Gens: An antiquated term for a patrilineal descent group now more commonly known as a clan. See "clan".
Group Marriage: A marital union involving several women and several men at once (GPM: 24). It does not appear to ever have existed as the cultural norm or the prevailing type of union in any known society.
Hawaiian Kinship Terminology: "A mode of kinship reckoning, usually associated with bilateral kinship or cognatic descent, in which relatives are distinguished only according to sex and generation." RK:149.
Hypergamy: Denotes a marriage rule prescribing union of a female with a male of higher status. Contra. "Hypogamy"
Hypogamy: Denotes a marriage rule prescribing union of a female to a male to a male of lower status. Contra. "Hypergamy"
Incest: "Sexual intercourse between two persons who are related by a real, assumed, or artificial bond of kinship that is regarded as a bar to sex relations. Where sex relations are forbidden, but not because of kinship, they may be called mismating. Where either party occupies a status forbidding sex relations, e.g., a nun, sexual intercourse may be termed status unchastity. (Murdock 1949:261)." ES:76.
Incest Taboo: "A rule prohibiting sexual relations between immediate kin (father and daughter, mother and son, brother and sister) and others culturally defined as in an equivalent relationship. Differs from "exogamy", which prohibits marriage but not necessarily sexual relations." RK:149.
Indirect Exchange (飨ange g鮥ralis驼/font>: "A system of alliance (prescriptive marriage) whereby kin groups exchange wives indirectly, so that a man must marry his actual or classifactory MBD (matrilineal alliance) or FZD (patrilineal alliance, said not to exist) but so that wife-givers cannot be wife takers." RK:149.
Iroquois Terminology: "A mode of kinship reckoning, usually but not always associated with unilineal descent, in which cross and parallel relatives are distinguished according to relative sex of connecting relatives in the middle three generations only." RK:149.
Joint Family: two or more nuclear families who form a corporate economic unit. LM:86
Joking Relationship: "Patterned behavior between kin that calls for mild to taunting or ribald joking." ES:76.
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