kinship ties
Bonds of blood
Kinship ties are the bonds connecting people through family relationships, whether by blood, marriage, or adoption.
The phrase emphasizes the binding nature of these connections—obligations, loyalties, and mutual support that come with being related: Kinship ties kept the extended family close despite geographic distance.
Anthropologists study how kinship ties structure societies and determine inheritance, residence, and social roles.
- parentMother or father
- spouseMarried partner
- patrilineageAncestry traced through males
- clan systemAncestry-based social organization
- siblingBrother or sister
cousin · marriage customs · close friend · ancestor worship · consanguinity · spiritual guide · legal guardian · blood relation · filial piety · niece · nephew · descendant · next of kin · distant relatives · family lineage · elders · offspring · inheritance
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- ancestryancestors, ancestor, clan, ancestry, bloodline
- genealogyfamily trees, family history, descendants, ancestors, ancestry tracing
- African traditionsinitiation ceremonies, naming ceremony, ancestral worship, rites of passage, tribal chiefs
- Andean Culturellama, alpaca, quinoa, Quechua, panpipes
- Clanclansman, clansmen, clanswoman, chieftain, kinfolk
kinship tiesacquaintanceship
State of knowing someone
chosen family · friendship · friendships · neighborly relations · client relationships
kinship tiessocial isolation
Lack of human contact
kinlessness · estrangement · rootlessness · alienation · atomization
kinship tiesestrangement
Emotional separation between people
alienation · social distance · anonymity · foreign relations · otherness