Cultural Anthropology Kinship
The term “kinship” itself brings to mind images of family members coming together to celebrate just that, being family, but the term kinship encompasses much more than that, it brings together a groups whole reason for being, kinship describes a groups patterns and lives. Basically kinship describes the family and its functions, in many places around the world kinship is regarded in many different ways, from simple legal rights to cultural laws allowing or disallowing certain activities. ... Kinship between these families is shared through one common bond, and that bond is one of marriage, a bond which has formed a family unit from two drastically separate entities, a family, kin.