Cognatic kinship

Mode of descent

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Anthropology of kinship

Basic concepts

* Family
* Lineage
* Affinity
* Consanguinity
* Marriage
* Incest taboo
* Endogamy
* Exogamy
* Moiety
* Monogamy
* Polygyny
* Polygamy
* Concubinage
* Polyandry
* Bride price
* Bride service
* Dowry
* Parallel / cross cousins
* Cousin marriage
* Levirate
* Sororate
* Posthumous marriage
* Joking relationship
* Clan
* Cohabitation
* Fictive / Milk / Nurture kinship

Descent

* Cognatic / Bilateral
* Matrilateral
* Lineal
* Collateral
* House society
* Avunculate

Linealities

* Ambilineality
* Unilineality
* Matrilineality
* Patrilineality

Household forms and residence

* Extended
* Matrifocal
* Matrilocal

Neolocal
* Nuclear
* Patrilocal

Terminology

* Kinship terminology
* Classificatory terminologies

By group

* Iroquois
* Crow
* Omaha
* Eskimo (Inuit)
* Hawaiian
* Sudanese
* Dravidian (debated)

Case studies

* Australian Aboriginal
* Burmese
* Chinese
* Philippine
* Polyandry in Tibet / in India

Feminist

* Chambri
* Mosuo

Sexuality

* Coming of Age in Samoa

Major theorists

* Diane Bell
* Tom Boellstorff
* Jack Goody
* Gilbert Herdt
* Don Kulick
* Roger Lancaster
* Louise Lamphere
* Eleanor Leacock
* Claude Lévi-Strauss
* Bronisław Malinowski
* Margaret Mead
* Henrietta Moore
* Lewis H. Morgan
* Stephen O. Murray
* Michelle Rosaldo
* Gayle Rubin
* David M. Schneider
* Marilyn Strathern

Related articles

* Alliance theory
* Matrilineal / matrilocal societies
* Feminist anthropology
* Sex and Repression in Savage Society

* Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship

* "The Traffic in Women"

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Cognatic kinship is a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor counted through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where relations are traced through both a father and mother.[1] Such relatives may be known as cognates.

## See also[edit]

* Matrilineality
* Patrilineality
* Hapū

## References[edit]

1. ^ Wolters, O. W. (1999). History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives. SEAP Publications. p. 17\. ISBN 0-87727-725-7.

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