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Encyclopedia > Fictive kinship

Fictive kinship is the process of giving someone a kinship title and treating them in many ways as if they had the actual kinship relationship implied by the title. People with this relationship are known as fictive kin. Fictive kinship is also known as relatedness. Kinship is the most basic principle of organizing individuals into social groups, roles, and categories. ...


Fictive kinship is seen by most current anthropologists as working alongside (or within) but not replacing traditional kinship. Kinship is the most basic principle of organizing individuals into social groups, roles, and categories. ...


Janet Carsten developed the idea of "relatedness" in response to David M. Schneider's 1984 work on Symbolic Kinship (A Critique of The Study of Kinship). Carsten developed her initial ideas from studies with the Malays in looking at what was socialized and biological. Here she uses the idea of relatedness to move away from a pre-constructed analytics opposition which exists in anthropological thought between the biological and the social (1995, The substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth; feeding, personhood and relatedness among the Malays in Pulau Langkawi, American Ethnologist). Carsten argued that relatedness should be described in terms of indigenous statements and practices, some of which fall outside what anthropologists have conventionally understood as kinship (Cultures of Relatedness, 2000). David M. Schneider is an American cultural anthropologist. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...


A noted Gurung tradition is the institution of "Rodi" where teenagers form fictive kinship bonds and become Rodi members to socialize, perform communal tasks, and find marriage partners. Selected ethnic groups of Nepal; Bhotia, Sherpa, Thakali Gurung Kiranti, Rai, Limbu Newari Pahari Tamang The Gurung is an ethnic group from the Central region of Nepal. ...


In Western culture, a person may refer to close friends of one's parents as "aunt" or "uncle" (and their children as "cousin"), or may refer to close friends as "brother" or "sister". In particular, college fraternities and sororities usually use "brother" and "sister" to refer to members of the organization. For this articles equivalent regarding the East, see Eastern culture. ...


The term has such a broad usage as to suggest that it might be spurious. Compadrazgo, common membership in a unilineal descent group, and legal adoption are among the phenomena which are described as examples of fictive kinship. An alternative standpoint would be that "either you're related or you aren't". The modern Latin American ritual of friendship. ... For other uses, see Adoption (disambiguation). ...


Fictive kinship was discussed by Jenny White in her work on female migrant workers in Istanbul (Money Makes Us Relatives, 1995). In her work she draws on ideas of production and the women she works with being drawn together through 'webs of indebtedness' through which the women refer to each other as kin. Istanbul (Turkish: , Greek: , historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see other names) is Turkeys most populous city, and its cultural and financial center. ...


Bibliography

  • Carsten, Janet, ed. (2000). Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521656273. 
  • Carsten, Janet (May, 1995). "The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood, and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi". American Ethnologist 22 (2): 223-241. 
  • Schneider, David M. (1984). A Critique of the Study of Kinship. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press. OCLC 10605668. 
  • White, Jenny B. (2004). Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor in Urban Turkey, 2nd ed., New York: Routledge. ISBN 0203240421. 

The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) was founded in 1967 and originally named the Ohio College Library Center. ...

See also

Compadre/Compadrazgo; For other uses, see Family (disambiguation). ... Kinship terminology refers to the words used in a specific culture to describe a specific system of familial relationships. ...


Nutini, Hugo G.


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ORB -- Kinship Terminology (3241 words)
Kinship terms were used in a variety of ways in the diplomatic, legal, and literary sources of the Medieval period.
Second, kinship terms were used as honorifics and as indicators of similar experiences, background, or position.Third, kinship terms were used as indicators of potential heritability.
It was not unusual for family members to use a variety of kinship terms intrafamilially to specify or acknowledge situations of common experience or to indicate pleasure or displeasure with a kinsman.
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Kinship is based on marriage, descent, and, occasionally, fictive relationships as well.
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