Sudanese kinship

Sudanese kinship, also specified to as the descriptive system, is the kinship system used to define family. forwarded by Lewis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity as living as Affinity of the Human Family, the Sudanese system is one of the six major kinship systems Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, Omaha as living as Sudanese.

The Sudanese kinship system is the near complicated of any kinship systems. It maintained a separate names for most every one of Ego's kin, based on their distance from Ego, their relation, as well as their gender. Ego's father is distinguished from Ego's father's brother and from Ego's mother's brother. Ego's mother is similarly distinguished from Ego's mother's sister and from Ego's father's sister. For cousins, there are eight possible terms.

Usage

The system is named for the peoples of South Sudan. The Sudanese kinship system also existed in ancient Latin-speaking and Anglo-Saxon cultures. It exists today among present-day Arab and Turkish cultures. It tends to co-occur with patrilineal descent, and this is the often said to be common in complex and stratified cultures.

Balkan kinships such(a) as Bulgarian, Serbian, and Bosniak adopt this system for different patrilinear and matrilinear uncles but collapse mother's sister and father's sister into the same term of "aunt" and Croatian and Macedonian further collapse the offspring of the uncles into one term.

On the opposite side, Chinese adds an extra dimension of relative age. Ego's older siblings are distinguished from younger, as are those of Ego's parents. One must specify if older e.g. Mandarin 哥哥 gēge or younger e.g. Mandarin 弟弟 dìdi. Similarly, a term for "uncle" or in at least in some varieties of Chinese, including Mandarin even "father's brother" does not realize up without circumlocution; the speaker must either specify "father's older brother" e.g. Mandarin 伯伯 bóbo or "father's younger brother" e.g. Mandarin 叔叔 shūshu. This does non apply to maternal uncles.