Social Organization
- Age and Generation
- Children and Adults
- Adolescence
- Adult generations
- Rites of Passage: birth, naming, weaning, puberty, adult initiation, marriage, old age, death
- Rights, Responsibilities, and Restrictions
- Birth order
- First born
- Gender: Male and Female and ?
- Roles
- Masculinity and feminity
- Relationships
- Marriage
- Types
- Monogamy
- Polygamy
- polygyny
- polyandry
- Group Marriage
- Incest
- Endogamy and Exogamy
- Dowry, Brideprice or Bridewealth, Bride Service
- Levirate and Sororate
- Divorce and Annulment
- Residence Patterns
- patrilocal (virilocal)
- matrilocal (uxorilocal)
- neolocal
- avunculocal
- bilocal
- duolocal
- Family
- Nuclear family
- Extended family/Camps
- Kinship
- Types of relationships
- Blood Relations
- Marriage Relations (in-laws and stepfamilies)
- Fictive Relations
- Adoption
- Godparents and godchildren
- Homosexual families
- Terminology of kinship structures
- Eskimo (American)
- Iroquois (Yanomamo)
- Crow (Trobriand Islanders)
- Omaha
- Hawaiian
- Sudanese
- Descent and Ancestry
- Descent types
- Patrilineal
- Matrilineal
- Bilineal (double descent)
- Clans, moieties, and totemism
- Friendship and Voluntary Associations
- Friendship
- Voluntary Associations
- Class and Caste
- Class
- Caste
- Status
- Achieved
- Ascribed
Adapted from Keesing 1958: 242-286; Rosman and Rubel 2004: chap. 6
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