Learn Anthropology: bifurcate merging kinship - a 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.

Word

bifurcate merging kinship

Meaning

a 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.

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Course

Anthropology

Lesson

11.3.1 Types of Kinship Systems

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