Anthropology

A relatively small and loosely organized kin-ordered group that inhabits a specific territory and that may split periodically into smaller extended family groups that are politically independent

A closed social class in which membership is determined by birth and fixed for life

Extended unilineal kinship group often consisting of several lineages whose members claim common descent from a remote ancestor, usually historical or fictional

A family established through marriage

human shit that is preserved

Child of a mothers brother or fathers sister

Any kinship group with a membership lineally descending from a real historical or fictional common ancestor

marriage within a particular group or category of individuals

the belief that ones own culture is the only proper one

marriage outside of the group

several closely related nuclear families clustered together into a larger domestic group

Two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption. The family may take many forms ranging from a single parent with one or more children, to a married couple or polygamous spouses with offspring, to several generations of parents and their children

the splitting of a descent group into two or more new descent groups

the cultural elaborations and meanings assigned to the biological differentiation of sexes