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13 Cards in this Set
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Bridewealth
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A customary gift before, at or after marriage from the husband and his kin to the wife and her kin
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Clan
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Unilineal descent group based on stipulated descent
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Descent group
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A permanent social unit whose members claim common ancestry fundamentally to a tribal society
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Dowry
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A marital exchange in which the wife's group provides substantial gifts to the husbands family
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Endogamy
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Marriage between people of the same social group.
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Extended family household
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Expanded household including three or more generations
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Family
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A group of people, children, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, cousins, spouses, sibling-in-law, parents -in-law
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Family of orientation
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Nuclear family in which one is born and grows up
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Family of procreation
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Nuclear family established when one marries and has children
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Incest
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Sexual relations with a close relative
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Levirate
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Custom by which a widow marries the brother of her deceased husband
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Lineage
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Unilineal descent group based on demonstrated descent
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Exogamy
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Mating or marriage outside one's kin group; a cultural universal
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