kinship group

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kinship group - group of people related by blood or marriage

clan, kin group, kindred, kin, tribe

social group - people sharing some social relation

mishpachah, mishpocha - (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); "she invited the whole mishpocha"

family unit, family - primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"

folks - your parents; "he wrote to his folks every day"

family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kin

totem - a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object

Tribes of Israel, Twelve Tribes of Israel - twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob

relative, relation - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"

clan member, clansman, clanswoman - a member of a clan

tribesman - someone who lives in a tribe

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Chapter four deals with relationships outside the kinship group, i.e., with intimates and strangers.

India and the Heartlands: An Eighteenth-Century World of Circulation and Exchange

This time, he is confident that he will win more support, having engaged more heavily with local kinship group leaders, who control thousands of votes in rural constituencies such as Narowal.

PML-N battles PTI in political heartland

We know that even today, injustices of the past are constantly evoked by the matanda, against another kinship group, another community, another ethnic group.

'Tanda'

We are looking to the future." Jackie turned to FASS's kinship group 10 years ago for support and advice.

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A number of websites have been created for the Kelabit in general and many families have their own kinship group network.

Kinship and resource access in contemporary Kelabit Society

Following Darwins evolutionary theory, and as a bio-cultural model, the DLS assumes that, within any given kinship group, cross-generational, traditionally held altruistic behaviours promote the success of the group's future and distant generations.

Palmer, Craig T., Emily K. Groom, and Jordan H. Brandon. Kindness, Kinship, and Tradition in Newfoundland/Alberta Migration

The result are creations akin to opera transported on covered wagons by an underfunded kinship group so far from home that their efforts to re-create their abandoned culture produce fresh conventions.

Seattle Experimental Opera's artistic insurrection

Traditionally, Pakistanis have identified first and foremost with their kinship group, clan, and by extension, ethno-linguistic group and have sought political representation (and patronage distribution) along these lines.

Dangerous conflation

The universality emphasized by Christianity and Islam displaced kinship and extended cooperation, altruism and resources to persons outside the kinship group, thereby decreasing Darwinian competition and the survival of unique genes.

A World without Islam

Birmingham was regarded as a new place - it was not: it is named after a Germanic kinship group that settled here in the early Middle Ages.