KINSHIP
One of the most significant functions of marriage is that it results in kinship. After marriage the kinship develops, such kins as father, mother, son, daughter, uncle, brother and so on. The kins have love, affection and sympathy for each other. They share their joys and sorrows and also have sympathies for each other. They have blood relationship and in more than one way bound together. Sometimes there are quarrels among the kins as well, but these are solved and again the kins come together as one. Among the kins there is some sort of biological relationship. Briefly speaking kinship may be defined as a biological relationship of sexual union or descent.
Definition of Kinship
According to W. H. R. Rivers defined “kinship is the social recognition of biological ties.”
Meyer Fortes defines descent as “A descent group is an arrangement of persons that serves the attainment of legitimate social and personal ends.”
G.P. Murdock, “Descent refers solely to a cultural principle whereby an individual is socially allocated to a specific group of consanguineal kinsmen.”
Schneider said that kinship refers to “the degree of sharing likelihood among individuals from different communities. For instance, if two people have many similarities between them then both of them do have a bond of kinship.”
According to A.R. Brown, “Kinship is genealogical relationship recognized for social purposes and made the basis of the customary relation of social relations.”
According to Charles Winick, “Kinship system may include socially recognized relationship based on supposed as well as actual genealogical ties.”
According to the anthropologist George Peter Murdock, “Kinship is a structured system of relationships in which kins are bound to one another by complex interlocking ties.”
(Any one definition)
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