Anthropology of kinship : Kinship, marriage and family form the perspective of cultural anthropology

Abstract

Kinship, kihship systems and alternative organization of relatives relations described as a result of cultural interpretation of reproductive process used for formation of meaningful social relationships

Keywords

• Cultural and social anthropology
• anthropology of kinship
• interpretation of reproduction
• kinship
• marriage
• family
• filiation and descent
• afinity
• residence rules
• kihship terminology