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KINSHIP SYSTEM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(anthropology) the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture, including the terminology that is used and the reciprocal obligations that are entailed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("kinship system" is a kind of...):
arrangement; organisation; organization; system (an organized structure for arranging or classifying)
Domain category:
anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)