1. KINSHIP STUDIES

2. SUFFIXES Lineal – line of descent Local – place of residence Lateral – of or relating to the side Archy – government

3. KIN TYPES Consanguineals Affinals fictive kin Lineals Collaterals

4. DESCENT TERMS Bilateral Unilineal Matrilineal Patrilineal Cognatic

5. KINSHIP TERMINOLOGIES Eskimo Iroquois Hawaiian Crow Omaha Sudanese

6. cross relatives kin on each side, who are neither patrilineal or matrilineal cross cousins are of particular importance, especially for some marriage systems Cross cousins can be identified as the children of opposite sexed siblings (of a brother and sister) and parallel cousins as the children of same sexed siblings (of two brothers or two sisters).

7. Endogamous Groups & Marriage Partners

8. Cousins & Marriage Partners

9. ESKIMO & MARRIAGE PARTNERS

10. “Eskimo”System of kinship terminology all cousins lumped together under same term brother & sister distinguished from cousins aunts & uncles lumped, but distinguished from mother & father not found with unilineal/ambilineal descent groups, but with bilateral kindred Anglo Canadian foraging groups

11. Iroquois & Marriage Partners

12. Yanomamo Kin Terms (Iroquois)

13. Iroquois System associated with unilineal descent father and father’s brother are referred to by single term mother and mother’s sister referred to by a single term but father’s sister and mother’s brother are given separate terms ego’s brother’s sisters and parallel cousins (through linking parent) are referred to by same term cross cousins are distinguished often preferred spouses

14. Crow & Marriage Partners (Akan kin terms)

15. Crow System - matrilineal descent (mirror image of Omaha) mother & mother's sister referred to by same term father & father's brother & father's sister's son referred to by same term (male members of my father's matrilineal group) father's sister & father's sister's daughter referred to by same term (female members of my father's matrilineal group) the Hopi, for example –emphasis on lineality

16. Omaha

18. Hawaiian – Cognatic

19. Hawaiian System - least complex all relatives of the same sex in the same generation are referred to by the same term Java north coast Salish of British Columbia large extended families, not unilineal descent often associated with ambilineal descent