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  2. Kinship terminology - Wikipedia

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    Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...

  3. Parallel and cross cousins - Wikipedia

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    Andrey Korotayev claimed that Islamization was a strong and significant predictor of parallel cousin (father's brother's daughter – FBD) marriage. He has shown that while there is a clear functional connection between Islam and FBD marriage, the prescription to marry a FBD does not appear to be sufficient to persuade people to marry thus ...

  4. Chinese kinship - Wikipedia

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    father's brother's son, younger than ego: 堂弟 tángdì: first cousin: 3 father's brother's son's wife: 堂嫂 tángsǎo: first cousin-in-law: 5 father's brother's daughter, older than ego: 堂姊 tángzǐ: 堂姊tángzǐ 堂姐 tángjiě: first cousin: 3 4 -if married father's brother's daughter, younger than ego: 堂妹 tángmèi: first ...

  5. Kinship - Wikipedia

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    For example, the word brother in English-speaking societies indicates a son of one's same parent; thus, English-speaking societies use the word brother as a descriptive term referring to this relationship only. In many other classificatory kinship terminologies, in contrast, a person's male first cousin (whether mother's brother's son, mother's ...

  6. Philippine kinship - Wikipedia

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    Philippine kinship uses the generational system in kinship terminology to define family. It is one of the most simple classificatory systems of kinship. One's genetic relationship or bloodline is often overridden by the desire to show proper respect that is due in the Philippine culture to age and the nature of the relationship, which are considered more important.

  7. Meet the Baldwin Family: A Guide to Brothers Alec, Daniel ...

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    The exes share one daughter, Ireland, who was born in October 1995, and one granddaughter, Holland, born in May 2023. Following their divorce, Alec found love again with wife Hilaria Baldwin ...

  8. The straw-to-gold quandary is the plot device driving the Grimms' version of the age-old fable, published by Georg Reimer in 1812. But an earlier iteration — one recorded by the Grimms just two years earlier, and sent to academic friends for comment — tells a different, more empowering story of the miller's daughter.

  9. Matrilineality - Wikipedia

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    One inherits or is a lifelong member of the lineage, the political unit, and the abusua of one's mother, regardless of one's gender and/or marriage. Note that members and their spouses thus belong to different abusuas , mother and children living and working in one household and their husband/father living and working in a different household.