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  • 18th-century family register
    kinship
    / The evolution of family forms

    …while some cultures differentiated “lineal kin” (those in a direct parent-child relationship) from “collateral kin” (such as cousins, aunts, and uncles), others did not. In some cultures, for example, father and father’s brother, or mother and mother’s sister, were denoted by the same term. In such systems the terms…

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    …while some cultures differentiated “lineal kin” (those in a direct parent-child relationship) from “collateral kin” (such as cousins, aunts, and uncles), others did not. In some cultures, for example, father and father’s brother, or mother and mother’s sister, were denoted by the same term. In such systems the terms…

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