KINSHIP ORGANIZATION

Kinship Organization



Kinship Organization

Kinship is recognized as one of the key positions in study of primitive culture. It has been a major pillar of anthropology since its existence. Entire ethnographies have been based on investigating of a society's kinship system. Kinship reinforced the need to investigate how the society and bloodlines works, how people associate themselves in a society and to move away from the functional and structural explanations of kinship, which were previously indicated.

Kinship is defined as the situation of being related to another person, set by rules (sometimes laws), and is often taken for granted as being “natural” ...