Eskimo kinship

Eskimo kinship or Inuit kinship is a set of ] a system of English-language kinship terms falls into a Eskimo type.

Occurrence

The Eskimo system is relatively common among the world's kinship systems, at about 10% of the world's societies. this is the now common in almost Western societies such(a) as those of Europe or Americas. In addition, it is found among a small number of food-foraging peoples such(a) as the !Kung tribe of Africa and the Eskimos Inuit-Yupik for whom it is named.

The system is widely used in non-unilineal societies, where the dominant relatives are the immediate family. In almost Western societies, the nuclear nature represents an self-employed adult social as well as economic group, which has caused the emphasis on the instant kinship. The tendency of families in Western societies to represent apart also reinforces this.