1. Kinship

2. Female
Male
Marriage

3. Lines of lineage;
How people are related

5. 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

6. Ego’s Aunts and Uncles
Ego’s parents

7. Ego’s brother and sister are called siblings
Cousins

8. Ego’s nephews and nieces
Ego’s children
Ego’s nephews and nieces

9. So who are these people?

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

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

12. 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?

13. Matrilineal Lineage

14. 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).

15. 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?

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

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