• functions of the family
  
  
• exogamy
  
  
  • incest tabus
    
    
• endogamy
  
  
• polygamy
  (plural marriages)
  • polygyny
  • polyandry
    
    
• cross cousin marriage

• parallel cousin marriage
  
  
• same-sex marriage
  
  
• modes of acquiring a spouse
  • arranged marriages
  • through bridewealth
    -- e.g., Nuer)
  • by suitor service
  • by gift exchange
  • by capture
  • by inheritance
    • levirate
    • sororate
  • by elopement
  • by adoption
  • by "falling in love"
  • [by winning one in a card game]
    
    
• "postmarital" residence patterns
  • matrilocal
  • patrilocal
  • uxorilocal
  • virilocal
  • ambilocal
  • bilocal
  • neolocal
    
    
• divorce
  
  
• geneology
  
  
• rites
  
  
• adoption

Kinship and Descent

• kinship symbols and notation conventions
  
  
• kinship terminology
  • Eskimo
  • Iroquois
  • Hawaiian (generational)
  • Crow
  • Omaha
  • Sudanese
    
    
• kin types
  
  
• descent terms
  
  
• kinds of descent groups
  
  
• extensions of kin groups
  • lineage
    • matrilineage
    • patrilineage
    • segmentary lineage
      • multiple lineages
      • Segmentary Lineages -- Brian Schwimme
        • Ancient Hebrew
    • Nuer segmentary lineage
  • clan
  • phratry
  • moiety

• kindred

Vocabulary

• suffixes
  • -lineal
  • -local
  • -lateral
  • -focal
  • -archy
    
    
• kin types
  • consanguineals
  • afinals
  • fictive kin
  • lineals
  • collaterals
    
    
• descent terms
  • bilateral
  • unilineal
    • matrilineal
    • patrilineal
  • bilineal
  • double descent
    
    
• kinship terminologies
  • terms of address
    (what you call a relative)t
    
  • terms of reference
    (how you refer to a relative)
    
  • descriptive terms
    (used by anthropologist)
    
  • nuclear family
  • cross cousin
  • parallel cousin

• cousin terminology
  • Eskimo
  • Iroquois
  • Hawaiian (generational)
  • Crow
  • Omaha
  • Sudanese

• 1st ascending generation terminology
  • lineal
  • bifurcate merging
    • Iroquois
    • Crow
    • Omaha
  • generational
    • Hawaiian
  • bifurcate collateral