kinship system

Other forms: kinship systems

Definitions of kinship system
  1. noun
    (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
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    type of:
    arrangement, organisation, organization, system
    an organized structure for arranging or classifying
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