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Regional variation in Kinship System answer in 100 words​

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Regional Variations in Kinship System and Its Socio-Cultural Correlates in India!

Marriage is a link between the family of orientation and the family of pro­creation. This fact of individual membership in two nuclear families gives rise to kinship system. Kinship is defined as “a social relationship based upon family relatedness”. The relationship which may be consanguineal (based on blood) or affinal (based on marriage), de­termines the rights and obligations of related persons. As such, kinship system is referred to as “a structured system of statuses and roles and of relationship in which the kin (primary, secondary, tertiary and distant) ire bound to one-another by complex interlocking ties”.

Part of the reciprocal behaviour, characterising every relationship between kin, consists of the terms by which each addresses the other, i.e., by personal name or by kinship term (pitaji, dadaji, bahenji) or by the combination of personal and kinship terras (Ram’s father, Rita’s mother, etc.). The kinship terms (of address and reference) which could be elementary (which cannot be re­duced to any other term, e.g., mata, pita, kaka, chacha, bhai, bahen, mousa, etc.) or derivative (which is compounded from an elementary term, e.g., bahnoi, mausa, etc.) or descriptive (which combines two or more elementary terms, e.g., mauseri bahen, phuphera bhai, etc.) are differentiated as isolative (applied only to one kin as defined by generation, sex and genealogical connection, e.g., bhai, bahen, pati, patni, etc.) or classificatory terms (ap­plied to persons of two or more kinship categories (e.g., cousin, used for father’s brother’s son as well as mother’s sister’s son). Since the classifica­tory terms ignore one or more fundamental criteria (e.g., sex, age, generation, affinity, collaterality, bifurcation, etc.) they reduce the num­ber of kinship categories from thousands to a very modest number.

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