❑ The bond of blood or marriage which binds

people together in groups.

❑ Kinship system includes socially recognized
relationships based on supposed as well as
actual genealogical ties.
- Dictionary of Anthropology
Affinal Kinship
Relationships based upon marriage or cohabitation
between collaterals (people treated as the same
generation)
Consanguineous Kinship
Kinship is reckoned in a number of different ways around
the world, resulting in a variety of types of descent
patterns and kin groups.
In kinship diagrams, one individual is usually labeled as EGO. This
is the person to whom all kinship relationships are referred. In
the case below on the right, ego has a brother (Br), sister (Si),
father (Fa), and mother (Mo).
.

This traces descent only through a

single line of ancestors, male or
female. Both males and females are
members of a unilineal family, but
descent links are only recognized
through relatives of one gender
Both males and females belong to their father's kin group but not
their mother's. However, only males pass on their family identity
to their children. A woman's children are members of her husband's
patrilineal line.
The form of unilineal descent that follows a female line. When using this
pattern, individuals are relatives if they can trace descent through females
to the same female ancestor. The green people below are related to each
other matrilineally.
When both patrilineal and matrilineal descent
principles are combined
is an institution that admits men and women to family life.
as the more or less durable connection between male and female
lasting beyond the mere act of propagation till after the birth of
offspring. (Edward Westermarck)
it as a relatively permanent bond between permissible mates. ( Lowie)
a contract for the production and maintenance of children. (Malinowski)
consists of the rules and regulations that define the rights, duties and
privileges of husband and wife with respect to each other. ( Lundberg )
is the practice of having only one
spouse at one time. In some cases,
monogamy means having only one
spouse for an entire life span.
Social monogamy Genetic monogamy
Two persons/creatures Two partners that only
that live together, have have offspring with one
sex with one another, and another.
cooperate in acquiring
basic resources such Marital monogamy
as food, clothes, and Marriages of only two
money. people.
Serial monogamy
Sexual monogamy A series of relationships.
Two persons/creatures One person has only one
that remain sexually partner at a time, and then
exclusive with one another moves on to another partner
and have no outside sex after severing the
partners. relationship with the first
 Marriage across Cultures

Endogamy Exogamy
– or compulsory – or out-marriage
marriage – it refers to marriage
– it refers to marriage outside their own clan
within their own clan or ethnic group.
or ethnic group.
is a Greek word meaning "The practice of
multiple Marriage". It is a marriage pattern in
which an individual is married to more than one
person at a time.
Ex:Muslims
Polygyny
is the practice of
one man having
more than one
wife or sexual
partner at a time. Polyandry
involves one
woman having
multiple
husbands
 Neolocal Residence Patrilocal Residence
This is where the is most commonly used with
herding and farming
couple finds their own societies.
house, independent It’s where the married couple
from all family lives with the husband’s
members father’s family
 Matrilocal Avunculocal
Residence Residence
is most familiar among
horticultural groups. It’s
where the couple moves to
live where the wife grew
up; usually found with
matrilineal kinship systems.
Child marriage. The parents of
a small child arrange a future
marriage with another child's
Types of Arranged
parents. Marriages
Exchange Marriage. This form
of marriage involves a reciprocal
exchange of spouses between two
Modern arranged marriage:
nations, groups, or tribes. The parents choose several possible mates for
the child, sometimes with the help of the child
(who may indicate which photos he or she likes,
for example). The parents will then arrange a
Diplomatic Marriage: Marriages meeting with the family of the prospective mate,
are arranged for political reasons, to and the two children will often have a short
cement alliances between royal unsupervised meeting, such as an hour-long walk
around the neighborhood.
families. The monarchs of Europe were
all related by blood due to frequent
diplomatic marriages.
 Ritual kinship in the form of godparenthood
Parents selected godparents for a child at his or her baptism, confirmation,
and marriage. The godparents were then tied to the parents as co-parents.
Ideally co-parents should be a married couple;
- they were preferred because their unions were typically more stable and they
were more likely to be able to provide a home for the child should the need arise.
In most communities, however, there were not enough couples so single women
of good reputation were frequently chosen.
It was important that the person asked should be of proper character and good
standing in the community.

Nuclear Family
A family consisting of a married
man & woman and their
biological children.
Conditionally Separated
Families
A family member is separated
from the rest of the family.
This may be due to employment
far away; military service;
incarceration; hospitalization.
They remain significant members
of the family.
Extended Family
A family where Grandparents or
Aunts and Uncles play major roles
in the children’s upbringing.
These family members may be in
addition to the child’s parents or
instead of the child’s parents.
Transnational family
These families live in more than
one country. They may spend part
of each Philippines on year in
their country of origin returning to
the a regular basis. The child may
spend time being cared for by
different family members in each
country
 commonly found in tribal societies across the world where kin
genealogy is applied to determine the system of communal
leadership. It is the traditional pattern of bequeathing political power
family members.
Kinship politics is built based on the classic political principle:
blood is thicker than water. It asserts that power should be
distributed among family members.
For the sake of family security, power should not be seized from
those who have kinship connections and must be circulated only
among those who are tied by blood