patrilineal kin
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patrilineal sib — noun one related on the father s side • Syn: ↑agnate, ↑patrikin, ↑patrilineal kin, ↑patrisib • Derivationally related forms: ↑agnate (for: ↑agnate), ↑agna … Useful english dictionary
Noongar kin systems — Noongar classification refers to the classification system in tribal law by which the Noongar, an indigenous Australian people, enforced restrictions on intermarriage. The Western Australia an atlas of human endeavour divides Noongar… … Wikipedia
Western Africa — ▪ region, Africa Introduction region lying south of the Sahara and east and north of the Atlantic Ocean. It is latitudinally divided into two parallel belts of land: the western portion of the Sudan, a geographic area that stretches across… … Universalium
Bangladeshi society — ocial historyBangladesh did not exist as a distinct geographic and ethnic unity until independence. The region had been a part of successive Indian empires, and during the British period it formed the eastern part of a hinterland of Bengal, which … Wikipedia
Parallel and cross cousins — In discussing consanguineal kinship in anthropology, a parallel cousin (or ortho cousin) is a cousin from a parent s same sex sibling, while a cross cousin is from a parent s opposite sexed sibling. So a parallel cousin is the child of the father … Wikipedia
patrikin — noun one related on the father s side • Syn: ↑agnate, ↑patrilineal kin, ↑patrisib, ↑patrilineal sib • Derivationally related forms: ↑agnate (for: ↑agnate), ↑ … Useful english dictionary
extended family — 1. a kinship group consisting of a family nucleus and various relatives, as grandparents, usually living in one household and functioning as a larger unit. Cf. nuclear family. 2. (loosely) one s family conceived of as including aunts, uncles,… … Universalium
Parallel cousin — is an anthropological term denoting consanguinial kin who are in the same descent group as the subject and are from the parent s same sexed sibling. A cross cousin is from the parent s opposite sexed sibling. Simply put, a parallel cousin is a… … Wikipedia
Serb clans — (Serbian: Српска племена, Serb tribes) is a general term referring to what are known as plemena (племена, tribes) and bratstva (братства, clan/brotherhood), traditional geo political units of the Western Balkans (Montenegro and Herzegovina) that… … Wikipedia
Acholi — ▪ people also spelled Acoli , also called Gang or Shuli ethnolinguistic group of northern Uganda and southernmost Sudan (Sudan, The). Numbering more than one million at the turn of the 21st century, they speak a Western Nilotic… … Universalium
