kinship group
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkinshipandgroup
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kinship
noun[U]
uk/ˈkɪn.ʃɪp/us/ˈkɪn.ʃɪp/
the relationship between members of the ...
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group
noun
uk/ɡruːp/us/ɡruːp/
a number of people or things that are put together or considered as ...
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(Definition ofkinshipandgroupfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofkinship group
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Thus, if for some reason a biologically blood-related family member is excluded from thekinshipgroup, he loses all the group privileges.
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The concreteness of the domestic group and its demonstrably superior documentary record are strong arguments for the relative unimportance of the largerkinshipgroup.
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First, it became obvious that mortality could play havoc with the composition of kinship groups, and that the persistence and durability of anykinshipgroup, however defined, was uncertain.
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By contrast, thekinshipgroupwas an ' imagined community ', kept in existence only insofar as people remembered or imagined themselves to be a part of it.
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Earlier rituals, although hidden from the profane, delineated the specialists' function of collecting body remains for the good of the deceased'skinshipgroupor initiation society.
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With increasing age and decreasing health, the older person begins to depend physically and psychologically on either thekinshipgroupor the existing social support network.
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The two entities regulated and adapted to different circumstances, so that the subordination of the domestic group to thekinshipgroupthrough contextualization makes very little sense.
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Some anocratic tribes may have a form of democracy in the extendedkinshipgroupbut no effective control of personal raids against non-kin groups.
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Land could be permanently transferred outside of thekinshipgroup, or alienated, but only with the agreement of the king and the witanagemot.
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It was this law that kept land within a family orkinshipgroup, and folkland was not land collectively owned by the folk.
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Members of akinshipgroupcollectively own land, but those who live in the village on the land control it.
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After consulting with the extendedkinshipgroup, the parents would approach a professional matchmaker ("ah atanzah"), who would approach the potential bride's family.
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Failing that, land could be transferred only within thekinshipgroup, for example through inheritance.
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Property was typically owned by the wholekinshipgroup.
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They can not may within thekinshipgroupof birth.
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Such problems supported the conclusion that past and present kinship groups, recreated through the systematic application of kinship rules, were more metaphorical than substantive.
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And with that he divided his circle into neat portions - the kinship groups.
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With worsening economic conditions, the population's search for alternative social insurance turned toward participation in reconstituted kinship groups.
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