Research Practices in the Study of Kinship

affines alliance ambilineal anisogamy anthropologists apical ancestors behaviour brideprice bridewealth brother Bushmen clan classification collected complementary filiation concerned consanguines context cousin cross-cousin cultural defined descent groups diagrams distinction distinguish Dumont economic ego's emic endogamy ethnographic etic Evans-Pritchard example exchange exogamous female fieldwork filiation Firth formal genealogical genealogical knowledge genealogical positions household ibid ideology important Indian individual instance involves jural Kachin kin group kinds kinship systems Leach Lévi-Strauss lineage male Maravar marriage married matter Needham Notes and Queries notion Nuer Omaha parallel cousins parents particular patrilineal persons possible practice prescriptive prestations principle problems question reciprocal sets reference relation relationship terminology relationship terms relatives relevant residence ritual rules Scheffler siblings situation social anthropology societies South India spouses status study of kinship systematic Tallensi terminology structure tion Trobrianders types typology unilineal unilineal descent usages