Kinship

Question: How do you show patrilineal exogamy on a kinship chart? I have a kinship chart here and I need to recognize Ego's (who is in the lowest descent line) preferred marriage partners if his culture practices patrilineal exogamy. Trick question?? Isn't exogamy OUTSIDE of the family?

Answer: Actually exogamy can mean marrying outside of many kinds of groups, from simply the family group to an entire clan or village. Patrilineal exogamy would mean to marry outside of the line of the father, meaning siblings and blood relatives on the father's side are taboo. The area of the kinship chart you have showing relatives on the mother's side (perhaps cousins) not blood related to the father would be acceptable marriage partners.

Question: How do you indicate polygamy on a kinship chart? I know that an equal sign means marriage, but I am doing a kinship chart for "Guest of the Sheik" and I need to indicate that Hamid has three wives. I have tried doing equal signs coming out at different angles from the triangle representing Hamid, but it makes it look sloppy and cluttered, and leaves no room to draw Hamid's siblings. Someone told me that zigzag lines are used to show multiple wives, but I haven't been able to find information on that anywhere. Thank you for your help!

Answer: There is a man in my family tree who had three wives - not all at once of course but the same principle applies. I put an equals sign to his left for the first wife, another underneath for the second wife, and the third wife to his right. This ensured that the children were shown in the right order. If you have turned the paper sideways (landscape), and you write small and neatly with a fine-nibbed pen, there should still be room for his siblings. John of Gaunt (1340-99), fourth son of Edward III of England, had three wives. In a book about the monarchs of England, his wives are shown on his right, one underneath the other, slightly offset so that the lines linking to the children arise from the correct marriage. The lines to the children cannot be simple vertical lines or they would be too close together, so they have right angles or diagonal sections. If there are too many children to fit on one line horizontally across the page, they can be staggered:- 1. Child 2, 4, 6, etc are written on a line slightly below their siblings, or 2. The children of the second wife are shown on a line above or below the children of the other wives. It is not easy to explain how these diagrams work, but if you can find a family tree of John of Gaunt's descendants you will be able to see how it looks on paper.

Question: What is the kinship between MacAngus de Moravia and King Duncan I of Scotland? Apparently Mac Angus de Moravia was the descendant of King Duncan I of Scotland, so I'm curious to know what the kinship was between the two, as I can't seem to find it anywhere. (Mac Angus de Moravia has to do with the Scottish clan Murray, they are supposedly his descendants.) Thanks! :)

Answer: http://www.answers.com/topic/duncan-i Duncan I (d. 1040), king of Strathclyde (possibly before 1034) and king of Scotland (1034-40). On the death of Malcolm II the male line of the royal dynasty was extinguished. The vacuum was filled by Duncan, son of Crínán, abbot of Dunkeld** (d. 1045), and Bethóc, daughter of Malcolm II. Far from being Shakespeare's old man, he is likely to have been in his twenties. His prime concern was apparently Northumbria, where he found his wife and where he mounted a disastrous campaign in 1039. This must have weakened him, and given Macbeth an opportunity to challenge for the throne. Duncan went on the offensive and led an army into Moray, where he was killed. The Scottish surname "de Moravia" means "of Moray", MacAngus means "son of Angus"; "Moray"=Murray today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:House_of_Moray Includes the listing Macbeth of Scotland and Óengus of Moray (anglicized as Angus of Moray) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_monarchs#House_of_Alpin_.28848.E2.80.931034.29 House of Dunkeld, 1034–1286: Duncan succeeded to the throne as the MATERNAL GRANDSON of Malcolm II. After an unsuccessful reign, Duncan was killed (in 1040) in battle by Macbeth, who had a long and relatively successful reign. In a series of battles between 1057 and 1058, Duncan's SON Malcolm III defeated and killed Macbeth and Macbeth's stepson and heir Lulach, and claimed the throne. According to the chart shown on this site: Duncan I was the Grandson of Malcolm II Macbeth was the son of Mormaer Findláech*, also a Grandson* of Malcolm II http://www.familysearch.org King Óengus of Moray (Angus of Moray) B: Fife, Scotland D: 1130, Moray, Scotland His Father: Ethelred Dunkeld** of Scotland , Abbot of Dunkeld--B. 1072 ,Scotland; D. 13 Nov 1093, Scotland Mother: Nn Daughter of King Lulach , Princess of Moray --B/D in Scotland (Her parents were King Lulach *the Fool* of Scotland & Fimmghuala of Angus) . Angus' paternal GRANDPARENTS: King Malcolm III Canmore of Scotland --B: 1031,Scotland; D. 13 Nov 1093 ,Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England ; Married 2nd about 1069 ,at Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland to: Princess Margaret of England--B. 1045, Hungary; D. 16 Nov 1093, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland; Buried : Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland . Angus' paternal GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: King Duncan I *The Gracious* of Scotland--B. 15 Aug 1001, Scotland; D. 15 Aug 1040 , Elgin, Moray, Scotland; Marriage: about 1030 , Scotland, to Sibylla Bearsson--B. between 1010 and 1014, Northumbria, England; D. about 1040, Scotland Going from the above , if ANGUS OF MORAY is the great-grandson of DUNCAN I, then his son (Mac Angus--or "son of Angus") would be a 2nd GREAT-GRANDSON.

Question: What is the symbol for a twin in Kinship charts/diagrams? I'm supposed to draw my own kinship chart, but as is always the case, I wasn't listening and missed what the symbol for a twin is. And since i AM a twin, I'm going to be in need of this. I tried Google for this, and it seems that in the entire world I'm the only twin, or rather, anyone who's drawn a Kinship Chart hasn't come across a twin before or simply ignored the fact. Can anyone help me?

Answer: You would note your twin as your sibling. I do not think that genetics of twins is specified in a kinship chart. You could put an (*) next to your sibling and have a note at the bottom of the page stating that this is your twin, or the twin of ego. Since everyone is in context to your placement within the kinship chart, you would be ego. I hope this helps! Good Luck!

Question: When one of the Beatles claimed kinship with the British royalty? I heard one of the Beatles claimed kinship through one of the Tudors...Which Beatle is this?

Answer: By "The Royalty" you mean the present Royal Family? If so, they aren't related to the Tudors, so Idk how a Beatle could be related to "The Royalty" through them.

Question: While at the traffoc lights have you ever made eye contact for like 1 second and felt a kinship with them? Like driving on an open road and following the same car for 30 minutes, or a moment shared at the traffic light. Since theres nothing else to do, do you create a little moment in time that contains you both in kinship?

Answer: You know, you were doing alright right up to the part about "creating a moment". The answer is of course you can feel a kinship with someone... you get a head nod, a wave, maybe even a smile when you both see some nimrod do something stupid and escape with his hide. But I have to draw the line at that "creating a little moment" thing. Do yourself a favor, don't read so much Cosmo, and cut Oprah-watching down to twice a week.

Question: What are the theoretical frames of kinship? I've answer'd all the questions but I can't seem to find the answers to these questions: •What are the theoretical frames of kinship? Explain what each entails •What are the “facts of life?” •What are the basic elements or rules of kinship? Explain each. pleeasse help! it's for soc 1

Answer: Did you read "All our kin"

Question: in kinship diagrams, does it matter to organize siblings from oldest to youngest? i'm doing a kinship diagram for my anthropology class and i'm trying to make it look neat. My mom is the oldest sibling in her family and my dad is the 3rd child of 5 children in his family. Please help me!

Answer: It really doesn't matter but that is how I have done mine and most official ones are done that way. It just seems logical. Why wouldn't you make it chronological?

Question: Why is kinship so important to Anthropologists? Anthropologists spend alot of time studying kinship terminology... why is this?

Answer: Kinship is important because it teaches you about the most basic part of the culture: the family. Once you understand what constitutes family, you can begin to learn the rules of interactions between family members and different families; i.e., how people are considered to be related and who is allowed to marry whom. Kinship is the root of the entire social system. Most rules in a culture are based on the logic of kinship. For example, if someone were to ask why the United States has only had male presidents, the Anthropologist could look at the historic American family and see that the husband is typically expected to be patriarch and the family member who goes outside the house, and that the wife is to fill the domestic duties and remain inside the home. Although logically, (educated) Americans (prodominantly) believe that a woman could hold office too, the culture still relies on the most basic part of society to determine who actually succeeds. Kinship, likewise, determines who it is okay for an individual to marry. Most cultures do not allow you to marry within your family, but the idea of "family" varries depending on the culture. For instance, a third cousin may not be marrigable for many Western cultures but can be considered acceptable in smaller, more tribal cultures, because a third cousin may not actually be part of the "family." Learning kinship may seem tedious at first, but like the concept it represents, it is the foundation upon which you will be able to build your understanding of the discipline.

Question: What is a kinship pair (it is used in a sentence below)? Analysis of kinship pairs has shown that more than half of the variance in these phenotypes is attributable to genetic factors. Please list your source. Thanks!

Answer: Related by blood...brothers/sisters

Question: Pagans: what religious significance does kinship have to you? What is your spiritual relationship to your kin? In many places and times in our history we have been very family oriented. How do you compare that to the present day, and where would you like to see improvement if it is needed? What would be your most favorable, if not ideal, form of Pagan community, and what role would a family play in that community? How would that family be structured itself? How could we work toward that? ~Just as a note, the word king came from kin; interesting shift from domestic authority.

Answer: Please excuse me if I sound scattered/out of it today. I'm very tired and the coffee isn't helping as much as it should. I'm actually having problems with my English right now when I'm usually quite good at it! LOL! Our Kin are very important in my form of Nordic Heathenism. I have never met a Germanic/Nordic Heathen that *didn't* consider their Kin one of the most important things in their lives. Indeed, we consider our deities to be like Kin, just much older, wiser and more powerful. This is why many of us don't "worship" in the way other faiths do. We merely honor them, look to them for guidance, advice and protection when necessary and enjoy their company. Our deities are the types of folk you'd have over for tea and crumpets. (Or more accurately - mead and cookies! Heathens dig on cookies, but who doesn't?) Groups of us who gather together for spiritual purposes and religious observances are frequently called a "Kindred" or a "Hearth" this belief in kinship is so strong. Our Kin is not necessarily confined to those to whom we are blood related either. To a certain extent, we consider all of the Folk our Kin and honor them, dead or alive, because of this. Our dead kinfolk can actually impact our lives and hanging about and meddling in the affairs of your descendants is an option for us after death. (Though I'll take eternal rest in Helheim, Lady Hel willing - I need the sleep!) In my view the ideal Heathen community would be structured just as we structure the Kindred I belong to right now. We are all considered equals, each with our own strengths and weaknesses. For logistics and planning and other practical matters, I'm the one to see. For spiritual guidance, they see Halla or her male BFF, Per. (I'm one of her female BFFs, thanks! ☺) Families are structured in the same manner, which makes total sense. The Kindred IS my family just as much as my blood relatives (who are also Nordic Heathens) are my family. A lot of us live in mulit-generational households or with other Heathens who may not be blood related to us. The people in my Kindred are fortunate that way as so many people now don't have that opportunity and are fairly isolated. I do think it is sad how in modern times many people have forgotten how important it is to honor their kin. My friend Sylvi used to work in a nursing home as a cook. Not only were we all horrified when she emailed and told us that some of these people had living relatives that simply wouldn't care for them (they didn't have "time" or "weren't able to care for them" WTF???), but it was made worse by the fact that so few of them even received regular visitors. I can't even imagine treating any of my kin that way. In my mind things like that need to be made into what they truly are - a shameful thing. Modern society has somehow made it acceptable for some people to simply abandon their families. I am puzzled as to when this became acceptable behavior and in some cases even expected behavior. I think if this was not so accepted except in very extreme circumstances and was viewed as abandonment or neglect or just plain shameful it wouldn't be quite so prevalent. It's just one small step toward reinforcing the bonds between kin that never should have died in the first place.

Question: It is often said that kinship is not important in societies as the United States.? However, how and what kinship relationships still have significance?

Answer: Kinship is important still, it's important in ALL societies. A society could not survive without some form of kinship attachment, it just depends on what kind it is. The kind of kinship bonds we have today are different than the ones we had 100 years ago, and the ones that other countries have. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the extended family remained much more intact than it is today. Several generations might live on the same tract of land, even in the same home. Pre-Industrial America was much more close knit, with grandparents, parents, and children often living together, or very close to one another. With the advent of industrialization came big cities, and families breaking apart to move around wherever the work was. That remains the norm today - it's not uncommon for a child to move to a city across the country, marry someone else, and have a nuclear unit family far away from even their immediate relatives (parents and siblings). The nuclear family, however (parents and children) still remains an important kinship tie in our society. The bonds between parent and child are very strong, much stronger than they are in some other societies (like many Pacific Islander groups, where the responsibility of children is so diffused among various aunts, uncles, grandparents, and older siblings that the bond between parent and child is much less profound). Parents continue to support their children, both financially and emotionally, even long after they have left the home. Kinship bonds also vary between groups even within our own country. The book "All Our Kin" by Carol Stack is a really interesting study of kinship ties in a 1960s Midwestern ghetto, and how the black kinship bonds were much different than those in typical white families. Many of those differences are still retained, particularly in low-income residential groups. So the answer to your question of "how and what" is that it depends on the subgroup you are looking at. In most American subgroups, the nuclear family remains the most important kinship bond that the ego (that is, the central person in the diagram) will be a part of. But like Carol Stack's book points out, that isn't always the case.

Question: what are your thoughts and consideration of kinship? what are your thoughts and consideration of kinship, need for belonging.

Answer: Tribes maintain close relationships within themselves. Modern men have other means of closeness. Similarity in attitude, thinking, education etc inspire them to be close. It is a matter of culture that bind them despite the difference in their faiths, colours or creeds. Communists all over the world try to maintain fraternity. Workers thus try to unite. Scientists join together in a particular work or after inventing, they maintain relationships through their new invention. And opposite genders too have a tendency to get attracted. Even the smell, gesture, way of talk attract or repel. This subject requires extensive study--so far achieved is not enough

Question: Are lot of present germans seems to Neanderthal? Have do some kinship between germans and Neanderthal? I think that many Germanic women are beautiful, but I note that some has features of Neanderthal. Will be my impression or some nexus?

Answer: Germans are poetic and appear to have an advanced cranial structure. The question is whether or not there was interbreeding, or Neanderthals were in fact proto-Germanic, or lastly whether or not the European climate produced two distinct and superior beings.

Question: How is religion tied directly to kinship and social organization among the Tikopians?

Answer: Religion is no longer tied directly to kinship and social organization among the Tikopians. Because by the 1950’s most Tikopians had been Christianized and most native ritual practices had ceased. However theTikopians have a highly developed culture with a strong Polynesian influence, including a complex social structure. The influence of Polynesian culture is close to local memory: not long ago, widespread infanticide was as natural and necessary as sharing food and learning to dance. Because of these population control methods, resulting in zero population growth and a sustainable economy, pre-contact Tikopian society was described as idyllic, even utopian. Its culture was strongly communal: the sea was full of fish, the land grew excellent food, and the people supported one another.

Question: How is ordinal kinship defined, such as third cousin etc? I recently saw a relationship shown as "fifth cousin, twice removed". What does this mean?

Answer: First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth etc. cousins are the same generation as you. Once, twice, thrice, 4 times, five times, etc removed is counting the generations away from you they are. So first cousin is your aunt or uncle's child. First cousin once removed is your mother's first cousin. second cousin is your cousin's cousin on the other side - like this; your aunt has a daughter - your first cousin. that daughter's father - your aunt's husband - has brothers and sisters too, and they have children. those children are your second cousins. OR - Say your great grandparents had 2 kids. Amy, and Kim. your Grandmother is Amy, making Kim your great aunt. Both of those kids - Amy and Kim - have children, namely your mother and her siblings, and your first cousins once removed - Kim's children. When Kim's kids have children of their own, they become your second cousins, but without the "removed" title. When your second cousins have children, those new children will be your second cousins once removed. here is a chart to make it easier - great grandma >>>>>>>>>>>>> your great grand aunt ...|................\.....................................................................| grandma >>>> your grand aunt....... your 1st cousin 2 removed ...|..............................\.......................................................| mom >>> your aunt...your 1st cousin 1 removed........2nd 1 rmv ...|..................|.................................\.................................| YOU...your 1st cousin......your 2nd cousin............3rd cousin ..|..................|..................................\.................................| kid..your 1st cousin 1 rmvd...your 2nd cousin 1 rmv ...3rd 1 rmv So your fifth cousin twice removed is related to you by going back up to your great - great - great - great - grandmother, and following forward down to your grandmother's generation, or down to your grandChildren's generation.

Question: Who in matrilineal societies with Crow kinship, sisters remain close to one another throughout their lives? In matrilineal societies with Crow kinship, sisters remain close to one another throughout their lives. Such a people are the ____, in whose traditional housing sisters lived in adjacent rooms. a)Hopi b)Omaha c)Sudanese d)Hawaiians

Answer: I don't know who is asking you this question and therefore I don't know what answer they want. Many cultures are matriarchal which means that the eldest female in the family group pretty well rules the roost. The Cheyenne were certainly like this and so were the Cherokee. The families would relate to their female kin, so when a man married a woman, he would move to her clan and kinship rather than staying with the father's group. I would think that the answer your teacher would want would be Omaha

Question: Can anyone give me legal definitions of the following: Guardianship, kinship, and specified relative? I have been 'goose-chased' to 9 state agencies and 3 websites and no one seems to know.

Answer: For definitions, go to:

Question: Why does kinship provide the main structure of social action in noncommercial societies?

Answer: In the absence of contractual institutions characterized by money (spending) and capitalism (making money), our most stable source of joy is the family. Non-commercialism makes us better appreciate the beauty and the bonds of solidarity which unite us to each other. Kinship rules.

Question: ANCIENT MACEDONIANS CLAIMED KINSHIP WITH illyrians of the south and illyrians of the middle, meaning? Meaning they are part of the HYLLIAN TRIBES, Or ILLYRIAN GENTES so they are not greeks whatsoever

Answer: Ancient Macedonians were an ancient people of Indo-European origin who were settled in the territory of Ancient Macedonia and represent the majority population there. They spoke of their ancient Macedonian language, which was different from Ancient Greek and was incomprehensible to other nations. Ancient historians, who lived at the time of the ancient Macedonians argue that the ancient Macedonian people come from Pelasgians, The indigenous people in Macedonia and southern Balkans. Macedonians and Hellenes (Greeks), Hellenic (Greek) historians represent them as two different races (Aryan, Greek Historian, Book 2, The Battle of Jesus, pp. 119 | | | Diodorus Siculus 18.37.3-4.). The same division of the Macedonian and Hellenic race and we find the Roman historians (Livy's book XXXI.44).