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consanguinity

Relationship by blood, whether lineal (for example by direct descent) or collateral (by virtue of a common ancestor). The degree of consanguinity is significant in laws relating to the inheritance of property and also in relation to marriage, which is forbidden in many cultures between parties closely related by blood. See also affinity.



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Godparentage, for instance, bound individuals together in a spiritual/ritual relationship, but it could also reinforce consanguineal or affinal or even both ties.
Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 by Frey, Dennis A. / Journal of Social History
Instead of realizing the implications of his conclusion here, Trigger instead slips back into the old Euro-centric language of consanguineal and (presumed) genealogical connectedness, not to mention the old Radcliffe-Brownian characterization of social organization in terms of moieties subdivided into semi-moieties, sections into subsections.
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