41. The set of categories of familial relationships evinced by the ethnic group's kinship system is another ethnotaxonomy. 42. As the Seminole had a matrilineal kinship system , they believed children belonged to their mother's people. 43. Lastly, kinship systems , or the varying words to describe familial relationships s much different than in English. 44. Not a kinship system which depicts actual relations but an idealized system linked to certain cosmological ideas. 45. The Crow system is distinctive because unlike most other kinship systems , it chooses not to distinguish between certain generations. 46. Speck was particularly interested in how family and kinship systems underlay tribal organizations and relations to homelands and natural resources. 47. Societies with the Eskimo kinship system , like the Inuit, Yupik, and most Western societies, are typically bilateral. 48. In this kinship system , a boy's maternal uncle was more important to his upbringing than his biological father. 49. Social traits included having a matrilineal kinship system , exogamous marriage between clans, and organizing into settled villages and towns. 50. The redistributive exchanges found in the Polynesian islands, in contrast, are embedded in a kinship system based on rank.
