Kinship

Female Male Marriage

Lines of lineage; How people are related

Each horizontal line of relatives is called a generation my grandparents’ generation my parents’ generation my generation my children’s generation Each horizontal line of relatives is called a generation

Ego’s Aunts and Uncles Ego’s parents

Ego’s brother and sister are called siblings Cousins

Ego’s nephews and nieces Ego’s children Ego’s nephews and nieces

So who are these people?

So who are these people? Ego’s maternal grandmother Ego’s maternal grandfather

Which would make these Ego’s maternal great uncle and great aunt

19, 21, 25, and 22 would all be considered what in our kinship system? Of those people, who would be related to Ego in a patrilineal kinship society? Of those people, who would be related to Ego in a matrilineal kinship society?

Matrilineal Lineage

Village in the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi Camp: Village in the Kalahari Most people in a band live in kin groups. This diagram is typical for the formation of a band in the Kalahari (southern Africa).

In this society is better to be a male or female? Potential Bwoti Memberships: Only shaded people can join the kinship group and enjoy inheritance. In this society is better to be a male or female?

Hebrew lineages: (above) the 12 Tribes, (left) lineage of Judah

Impediments to Marriage (Women whom Ego cannot marry are shaded in red) Pre Vatican II Post Vatican II