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Noun: kinship system
  1. (anthropology) the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture, including the terminology that is used and the reciprocal obligations that are entailed
    "The Iroquois kinship system classifies relatives differently from the Western system"

Derived forms: kinship systems

Type of: arrangement, organisation [Brit], organization, system

Encyclopedia: Kinship system