| exogamy | A cultural rule that dictates that one must marry outside of a designated group (e.g., outside of one's lineage, clan, village).
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| nuclear family | A married couple and their children.
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| endogamy | A cultural rule that dictates that one must marry within a designated group.
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| levirate | A marriage custom in which a widow marries her deceased husband's brother.
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| sororate | A marriage custom in which a widower marries a sister of his deceased wife.
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| status | A person's position in society.
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| role | The culturally assigned behaviors and expectations for a person's social position.
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| monogamy | A form of marriage in which one woman is married to one man.
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| polygamy | Multiple spouse marriage.
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| polygyny | Marriage of one man to two or more women.
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| polyandry | Marriage of one woman to two or more men.
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| sister exchange | A common type of marriage consisting of the marriage of cross cousins. Men exchange their sisters as marriage partners.
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| cross-cousin | Ego's mother's brother's child and father's sister's child.
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| parallel cousin | Ego's mother's sister's child and father's brother's child.
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| bridewealth | A form of marriage finance in which valuable gifts are given by the groom's kin to the bride's kin.
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| dowry | A form of marriage finance in which valuable gifts are given by the bride's kin to the groom's kin.
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| half-marriage | A custom among the Yurok (Northwestern California) and other patri-centered groups where a man pays partial bridewealth, lives with the bride's family and the couple's children belong to the wife's and her family.
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| family of orientation | A person's childhood family, where enculturation takes place.
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| consanguineal relatives | Kin related by blood.
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| family of procreation | A kin group consisting of an individual and the individual's spouse and children.
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| affinal kin | Kin related by marriage.
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| kinship system | The complexity of a culture's rules governing the relationships between affinal and consanguineal kin.
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| extended family | Two or more nuclear families that are related by blood and who reside in the same household, village, or territory (e.g., a man and wife, their sons, and their sons' wives and children).
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| household | A common residence based economic unit.
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| neolocal residence | A postmarriage residence rule that requires the bride and groom to set up an independent household away from both sets of parents.
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| patrilocal residence | A postmarriage residence rule that requires the bride and groom to live in or near the residence of the groom's father.
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| virilocal residence | The custom of living with the husband's relatives after marriage.
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| shabano | A Yanomamo village.
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| matrilocal residence | A postmarriage residence rule that requires the bride and groom to live in or near the residence of the bride's mother.
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| uxurilocal residence | The custom of living with the wife's relatives after marriage.
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| matrifocal residence | A residence group consisting of a woman and her children residing without co-residence of a husband.
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| avunculocal residence | A postmarriage residence rule that requires the bride and groom to reside with or near the groom's mother's brother.
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| bilocal residence | The condition where a newly married couple resides either with or near the groom's parents or the bride's parents.
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| ambilocal residence | See bilocal residence.
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| matri-patrilocal residence | A temporary residence form where the groom moves to live with the bride's family until bridewealth payments are complete and the couple take up permanent patrilocal residence.
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