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How do you assess the changing patterns in kinship relations in societies today?

  • UPSC 2023, 2021
  • Systems of Kinship

Kinship is the socially recognised network of relationships based on descent (consanguinity) and marriage (affinity). Classical anthropology, from A. R. Radcliffe-Brown to Irawati Karve, treated it as a fixed structure of groups and rules. Today kinship is not dissolving. It is moving from ascribed structure to chosen, negotiated relatedness, and unevenly so.

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