Milk kinship, formed during nursing by a non-biological mother, was a form of fostering allegiance with fellow community members. This particular form...

children may be known as "milk-siblings", and in some societies, the families are linked by a special relationship of milk kinship. Wet-nursing existed in...

the mother and child. In Islamic law, breastfeeding creates ties of milk kinship (known as raḍāʿ or riḍāʿa (Arabic: رضاع, رضاعة  pronounced [riˈdˤaːʕ(a)]))...

Fictive kinship is a term used by anthropologists and ethnographers to describe forms of kinship or social ties that are based on neither consanguineal...

godparenting, milk kinship established a second family that could take responsibility for a child whose biological parents came to harm. "Milk kinship in Islam...

understand family through ideas of living together, the sharing of food (e.g. milk kinship) and sharing care and nurture. Sociologists have a special interest in...

The concept of nurture kinship in the anthropological study of human social relationships (kinship) highlights the extent to which such relationships...

consanguinitas 'blood relationship') is the characteristic of having a kinship with a relative who is descended from a common ancestor. Many jurisdictions...

kinship is a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor counted through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where...

[citation needed] Milk siblings are children who have been nursed by the same woman. This relationship exists in cultures with milk kinship and in Islamic...

Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from...

Adoptive Kinship." Comparative Studies in Society and History 45 (2003): 741–82. Parkes, Peter. "Fosterage, Kinship, and Legend: When Milk was Thicker...

In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact...

Omaha kinship is the system of terms and relationships used to define family in Omaha tribal culture. Identified by Lewis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work...

Hawaiian kinship, also referred to as the generational system, is a kinship terminology system used to define family within languages. Identified by Lewis...

Sudanese kinship, also referred to as the descriptive system, is a kinship system used to define family. Identified by Lewis Henry Morgan in his 1871...

Crow kinship is a kinship system used to define family. Identified by Lewis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the...

moiety in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In the anthropological study of kinship, a moiety (/ˈmɔɪəti/) is a descent group that coexists with only one other...

Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship. Different societies classify...

Iroquois kinship (also known as bifurcate merging) is a kinship system named after the Haudenosaunee people, also known as the Iroquois, whose kinship system...

Inuit kinship is a category of kinship used to define family organization in anthropology. Identified by Lewis H. Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity...

Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their...

Human milk immunity is the protection provided to the immune system of an infant via the biologically active components in human milk. Human milk was previously...

Philippine kinship uses the generational system in kinship terminology to define family. It is one of the most simple classificatory systems of kinship. One's...

Collateral is a term used in kinship to describe kin, or lines of kin, that are not in a direct line of descent from an individual. Examples of collateral...

kinship system (simplified Chinese: 亲属系统; traditional Chinese: 親屬系統; pinyin: qīnshǔ xìtǒng) is among the most complicated of all the world's kinship systems...

breasts, put it in his mouth, and claim to be her foster-child (see Milk kinship). She will then impart to him whatever knowledge he desires. If she says...

people, the largest ethnic group in Indonesia, also adopt a bilateral kinship system. Nonetheless, it has some tendency toward patrilineality. The Dimasa...

The kinship terms of Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) differ from the English system in certain respects. In the Hindustani system, kin terms are based on gender...

Aboriginal Australian kinship comprises the systems of Aboriginal customary law governing social interaction relating to kinship in traditional Aboriginal...