单词 | kinship |
释义 | kinshipn. The quality or state of being of kin. 1. a. Relationship by descent; consanguinity. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > blood-relationship bloodOE alliancec1325 consanguinityc1380 cognation1382 allyc1425 sanguinityc1470 kin1548 blood bond1645 kinship1786 blood relationship1793 blood affinity1820 1786 County Mag. Apr. 62/2 Fuller, in his Holy State, relates an anecdote of an husbandman, who claimed kinship with Robert Grosthead, Bishop of Lincoln. 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 141 An awful thing Is kinship joined to friendship. 1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey iii. 172 In consideration of her kinship with no less than twelve sovereigns. 1880 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor (ed. 3) III. xiii. 119 She was of kinship with the queen. b. Cultural Anthropology. The recognized ties of relationship, by descent, marriage, or ritual, that form the basis of social organization. So attributive and in other combinations, as kinship category, kinship group, kinship structure, kinship term; kinship system n. the system of relationships traditionally accepted in a culture and the rights and obligations which they involve. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > kinship system kinship1866 kinship system1937 1866 J. F. M'Lennan in Fortn. Rev. 15 Apr. 580 Kinship through the mother had been in Homer's time undisputed among the Greeks. 1910 J. G. Frazer Totemism & Exogamy I. 20 The Psylli, a Snake clan in Africa, had a similar test of kinship. 1914 W. H. Rivers (title) Kinship and social organization. 1914 W. H. Rivers 1 The aim of these lectures is to demonstrate the close connection which exists between methods of denoting relationship or kinship and forms of social organisation. 1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory x. 171 In 1909 Kroeber, while fruitfully paving the way for work on the linguistic categories embodied in kinship systems, denied any social determinants. 1945 G. Wilson & M. Wilson Anal. Social Change vi. 162 Any attempt to bolster up a legal system based on kinship is doomed to failure in an expanding society. 1949 E. E. Evans-Pritchard in M. Fortes Social Struct. 101 Nuer themselves..see that it is undesirable to obliterate..the boundaries between kinship categories. 1949 F. Eggan in M. Fortes Social Struct. 121 One of the most significant advances in the study of kinship systems in modern times has been Professor A. R. Radcliffe-Brown's method of structural or sociological analysis. 1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization i. 32 Other basic relations..are due to position in a kinship system. 1955 M. Gluckman Custom & Confl. Afr. iv. 99 Children are desired by a Zulu kinship-group because they strengthen it. 1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society iii. 77 In most primitive societies social control at the local level is associated with position in the kinship structure. 1958 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Method in Social Anthropol. ii. iv. 171 The kin of any given person were classified into a limited number of categories, each denoted by one kinship term. 1969 M. Fortes Kinship & Social Order (1970) p. vii My thesis is that the structuralist theory and method of analysis in the study of kinship and social organization..stems directly from Morgan's work. 1970 E. Leach Lévi-Strauss vi. 99 Ties of filiation and..ties of siblingship..provide the basic bricks out of which kinship systems are built up. 1971 World Archaeol. 3 217 Ethnographic evidence therefore focuses on metalworking as a kinship or descent group-organized activity. 2. figurative. Relationship in respect of qualities or character. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > affinity or closeness cousinagea1398 alliancea1475 affinityc1485 propinquitya1500 societya1513 kindred1528 cognationa1555 affinitive1579 sympathya1586 vicinity1594 affiance1597 contingence1612 contingency1612 congeniality1620 umbilicality1646 consanguinity1651 congeneracy1664 gossipred1674 congenerousness1677 closeness1692 intimacy1720 proximity1762 liaison1809 cousinship1848 affiliation1870 kinship1876 1876 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (ed. 5) 239 We see how far it has any kinship with that doctrine of the Godhead of the Eternal Son. 1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) iv. 90 Those mysterious instincts which vindicate our kinship to God. 1899 W. M. Ramsay in Expositor Jan. 42 Peter was..among the older apostles..the one with whom Paul felt most kinship in spirit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1786 |
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