I need some help understanding kinship terminology.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 2:27 am
I have a conculture that's both matrilineal and matrilocal (in fact, it conflates the two concepts) and uses the Crow kinship system. I can wrap my head around the chart as presented; the main source of confusion I have comes from trying to extend it.
Here are my two major questions:
Here are my two major questions:
- I have different words for a brother's children and a sister's children. Tentatively, ego's children are called by the same terms as the children of the same-sex sibling. Is this a reasonable setup?
- The article says ego's father's matrilineage is differentiated only by sex. What about ego's father's patrilineage? Would it also be lumped together?