bifurcate merging kinshipa broader chart of EGO family relation that connects kinships by merging EGO’s parents’ same-sex siblings and their offspring into the immediate family (creating parallel cousins) and bifurcating, or cutting off, EGO’s parents’ opposite-sex siblings and their offspring (creating cross cousins); also called Iroquois kinship.Elon.io is an online learning platformWe have an entire course teaching Anthropology grammar and vocabulary.Start learning Anthropology now