KINSHIP
Kinship
This article reflects the long-standing use of the term kinship in anthropology, which refers to the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of most humans in most societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. Anthropologist Robin Fox states that "the study of kinship is the study of what man does with these basic facts of life - mating, gestation, parenthood, socialization, siblingship etc." Human society is unique, he argues, in that we "are working with the same raw material as exists in the animal world, but 1 can conceptualize and categorize it to serve social ends." ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Kinship
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kinship
Noun
- relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption
- relation or connection by nature or character
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