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family
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at a minimum, a woman and her dependent children, and often at least male adult, usually related by blood or marriage
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kinship
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complex system of culturally defined social relationships based on marriage and birth
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descent
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rule of relationship that ties people together based on reputed common ancestry
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lineage
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decent group made up of blood kin who trace who they are related to back to a known ancestor
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clan
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non-corporate descent group with members claiming connection to a real or mythical ancestor without knowing exactly how they are related
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social class
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group of families who enjoy equal or nearly equal social prestige according to the system of evaluation
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caste
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special social class in which membership is determined by birth and fixed for life
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marriage
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transaction and resulting contract in which two people are recognized by society as having a continuing claim to the right of sexual access to one another; in which the woman can bear children
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incest taboo
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prohibition of sexual relations between close members; usually including parents, children, and siblings at a minimum
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materialism
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anthropological theory in which it is believed that material conditions are the most important things in shaping a culture
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explicit culture
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cultural rules that are clearly laid out by the society; i.e. laws, values, etc.
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tacit culture
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silent culture; culture that is understood without having to be talked about; intrinsically rooted aspects of culture
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post-modernism
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anthropological theory that states that there is no objective truth; truth can only be arrived at by taking into account multiple voices and multiple interpretations
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