Kinship
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...blood (consanguinity) or marriage (affinity) between persons; also, in anthropology and sociology, a system of rules, based...governing descent , inheritance, marriage , extramarital sexual relations...of kinship extends beyond family ties, which vary in breadth...See R. Fox, Kinship and Marriage (1967); I. Buchler and...