Encyclopedia - Consanguinity: Encyclopedia - Consanguinity
Consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person. The degree of relative consanguinity can be ill...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cousin Chart: Encyclopedia - Cousin Chart
A cousin chart is the common name for a Table of Consanguinity. It identifies the correct name for the relationship between two people us...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marriage Conflict: Encyclopedia Ii - Marriage Conflict - Consanguinity
In Christian cultures, the Biblical proscriptions contained in Leviticus 18 v6-18, are used as the basis for restricting marriage between...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nullity Conflict: Encyclopedia Ii - Nullity Conflict - Formal Validity
As a general principle, the formal validity of a marriage is determined under the municipal lex loci celebrationis on the date of the cer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nullity Conflict: Encyclopedia Ii - Nullity Conflict - Relevant Policies
Three public policies are relevant in the general Conflict system: Avoiding so-called “limping marriages”. Wherever possible, there ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marriage Conflict: Encyclopedia Ii - Marriage Conflict - Public Policy
The central political issue for each state is the choice between potential conflict and accommodation, between assimilation and the prese...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Family: Encyclopedia - Family
A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups, typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marriage Conflict: Encyclopedia Ii - Marriage Conflict - The Choice Of Law Options
The standard choice of law rules for adjudicating on issues relating to marriage represent a balance between the various public policies ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hierarchy: Encyclopedia - Hierarchy
A hierarchy (in Greek: Ιεραρχία, it is derived from ιερός-hieros, sacred, and άρχω-arkho, rule) is a system of ranking a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Extended Family: Encyclopedia - Extended Family
Extended family is a term with several distinct meanings. First, it is used synonymously with consanguinal family. Second, in societies d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Njord: Encyclopedia - Njord
In Norse mythology, Njord or Njordr (Old Norse Njörðr) is one of the Vanir and the god of the fertile land along the seacoast, as well ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Affinity Law: Encyclopedia - Affinity Law
In law and in cultural anthropology, affinity, as distinguished from consanguinity, is kinship by marriage. It is the relation which each...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crow Kinship: Encyclopedia - Crow Kinship
Crow kinship is a kinship system used to define family. Identified by Louis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Af...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marriage Conflict: Encyclopedia Ii - Marriage Conflict - Formalities
Marriage conflict - Religious forms of marriage. Where a society permits worship by a given religion, and worshippers wish to marry acc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marriage Conflict: Encyclopedia Ii - Marriage Conflict - Consent
In Western cultures, the issue of consent is considered of fundamental importance and, if it is not freely given, it can prevent a valid ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cousin Chart: Encyclopedia Ii - Cousin Chart - Mathematical Definitions
The family relationship between two individuals a and b, where Ga and Gb respectively are the number of generations between each individu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Family - English Kinship Terminology
Most Western societies employ English kinship terminology. This kinship terminology is common in societies based on conjugal (or nuclear)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cousin Chart: Encyclopedia Ii - Cousin Chart - Half Cousins And Double Cousins
It should be noted that the above chart is inadequate to explain the relationships which result when two people are both descended from a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Family - Family Cross-culturally
According to sociology and anthropology, the primary function of the family is to reproduce society, either biologically, socially, or bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Family - Family In The West
The preceding types of families are found in a wide variety of settings, and their specific functions and meanings depend largely on thei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Family - Kinship Terminology
A kinship terminology is a specific system of familial relationships. The now rather dated anthropologist Louis Henry Morgan argued that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marriage Conflict: Encyclopedia Ii - Marriage Conflict - Polygamy
Polygamy may be polygyny (one man having one or more wives) or polyandry (one woman having one or more husbands) and it has been practise...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hierarchy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hierarchy - Diverse Examples Of Reasoning With Hierarchies
Many aspects of the world are analyzed from a hierarchical perspective. (The concept of hierarchy is thus a good example of interdiscipli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hierarchy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hierarchy - Social Hierarchies
Many human organizations, such as businesses, churches, armies and political movements are hierarchical organizations, at least officiall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hierarchy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hierarchy - Hierarchical Nomenclatures In The Arts And Sciences
Hierarchies are important for categorization and organization of large numbers of objects. Taxonomies, for example, such as biological ta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hierarchy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hierarchy - Social Hierarchies
Many human organizations, such as businesses, churches, armies and political movements are hierarchical organizations, at least officiall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hierarchy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hierarchy - Diverse Examples Of Reasoning With Hierarchies
Many aspects of the world are analyzed from a hierarchical perspective. (The concept of hierarchy is thus a good example of interdiscipli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hierarchy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hierarchy - Social Hierarchies
Many human organizations, such as businesses, churches, armies and political movements are hierarchical organizations, at least officiall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hierarchy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hierarchy - Hierarchical Nomenclatures In The Arts And Sciences
Hierarchies are important for categorization and organization of large numbers of objects. Taxonomies, for example, such as biological ta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kinship And Descent: Encyclopedia Ii - Kinship And Descent - Legal Ramifications
Kinship and descent have a number of legal ramifications, which vary widely between legal and social structures. Most human groups share ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crow Nation: Encyclopedia Ii - Crow Nation - Lineage
The Crow were a matrilineal (decent through the maternal line), matrilocal (husband moves in with wife's family), and matriarchal tribe (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bølling Oscillation: Encyclopedia Ii - Bølling Oscillation - Fauna
During this time late Pleistocene animals spread northward from refugia in the three peninsulas, Spain, Italy and the Balkans. Geneticist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Ix Of Aquitaine: Encyclopedia Ii - William Ix Of Aquitaine - Life And Family
William was the son of William VIII of Aquitaine by his third wife Hildegarde of Burgundy. His birth was an event of great celebration, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marriage: Encyclopedia Ii - Marriage - Marriage Restrictions
Societies have always placed restrictions on marriage to relatives, though the degree of prohibited relationship varies widely. In almost...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi Religious Practices: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi Religious Practices - Offering Of Churul
Ayyavazhi does not have the idea of 'giving offerings' but only 'giving Churul’ This is also one of the significant practice of Ayyavaz...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polyamory: Encyclopedia Ii - Polyamory - Polyamory And Parenting
Many polyamorists have children, either within the relationship or from a previous relationship. Like other elements of polyamory, the wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethics - Jewish Family Ethics
Great stress is laid on reverence for parents. Central to society is the nuclear family. Its head is the father; yet the mother as his eq...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Affinity Canon Law: Encyclopedia Ii - Affinity Canon Law - Reasoning
The motive for the impediment of affinity is akin to, though not as strong as, that of consanguinity; there arises from the partners' car...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polyamory: Encyclopedia Ii - Polyamory - Polyamory And Parenting
Many polyamorists have children, either within the relationship or from a previous relationship. Like other elements of polyamory, the wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marriage: Encyclopedia Ii - Marriage - Marriage Restrictions
Societies have always placed restrictions on marriage to relatives, though the degree of prohibited relationship varies widely. In almost...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cousin Chart: Encyclopedia - Cousin Chart
A cousin chart is the common name for a Table of Consanguinity. It identifies the correct name for the relationship between two people wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cousin Chart: Encyclopedia - Cousin Chart
A cousin chart is the common name for a Table of Consanguinity (see legalese). It identifies the correct name for the relationship betwee...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Genetic Engineering Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Genetic Engineering Topics - #
3' end -- 5' end -- ... See also:List of genetic engineering topics, List of genetic engineering topics - #, List of genetic engineeri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Genetic Engineering Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Genetic Engineering Topics - R
R factor -- R plasmid -- Radiation hybrid -- RAM mutation -- Random genetic drift -- Random mating -- Rare-cutter enzyme -- Reading frame...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Genetic Engineering Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Genetic Engineering Topics - K
Kappa particle -- Karyokinesis -- Karyotype -- Kilobase -- Kin selection -- Kinetochore -- Klinefelter syndrome -- ... See also:List o...   » Read the article