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Kinship and family (Marriage and marriage exchages (Marriage (The incest…

- - - - Marry inside a cultural group
    - - Marry outside a cultural group
    - - It depends who is considered too closely related
      - In some societies a cousin
    - - Polygyny (1 husband)
        
        sororal polygyny (sisters)
      - Polyandry (multiple husbands)
        
        fraternal polyandry (brothers)
    - - Sororate (deceased wife's husband marries her sister)
      - Levitate (deceased husband's wife marries his brother)
- - - - Ascribed and achieved
- - - - Kinship systems are patterns of relationships between kin recognised in a culture. They create descent groups, which give their members a sense of support and identity. They can also determine a number of things -- such as who inherits
        
        Kinship systems can be looked at through diagrams, but what can also be revealing is looking at the terms that people use for their kin.
      - Patrilineal Descent group
        
        The father's line of relationships
      - Matrilineal Descent Group
        
        The mother's line
        
        Not necessarily matriarchal. Men still more powerful but in these societies more as brothers as as mother's brothers
      - Bilateral Descent Group
        
        both mother and father's family recognised as relatives
    - - Like calling all of father's brothers 'father'
      - It possibly reveals some things about the culture