ANTHRO: Kinship

A kinship system in which a person is said to be descended from both parents but that allows the the individual to choose with which descent group to have more affiliation with

Marital residence within matrilineal societies in which one lives with or near the groom's mother's brother

A child is recognized as being related by descent to both parents

A choice in residence is available between living near or with the family of either the groom or the bride

Involves the groom working for his father-in-law for a certain period of time before returning home with the bride 

Children of either one's father's sister or one's mother's brother - the term cross indicates the different sexes of the linking siblings (type of marriage)

The tracing of kinship relationships through parentage - based on the fact that everybody is born from somebody

A system that combines patrilineal and matrilineal descent - offspring are believed to inherit different personal attributes and property from both father's line and mother's line

Marriage within a particular group

Marriage outside the group

Diagram tracing descent of "ego" to a common, earliest ancestor 

Bride exchange which involves more than two groups and occurs in a more diffuse and delayed way (A gives to B, who gives to C, and then C gives to A)

Requires the groom to be of higher status than the bride - the bride marries up

When the female marries down 

A rule prohibiting marriage or sexual intercourse between certain kinship relations - most basic and universal rules of exclusion