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 * A **double horizontal line** (like an equals-sign), or an **underbar** if you want to be fancy, connecting two people is a relationship of marriage * A **double horizontal line** (like an equals-sign), or an **underbar** if you want to be fancy, connecting two people is a relationship of marriage
   - For that reason, vertical lines tend to descend from a double line to an overbar, indicating that two people, a man and a woman, are the married parents of a group of siblings.   - For that reason, vertical lines tend to descend from a double line to an overbar, indicating that two people, a man and a woman, are the married parents of a group of siblings.
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 ## Isn't this supposed to be a system for diagramming alternative forms of family and kinship?  ## Isn't this supposed to be a system for diagramming alternative forms of family and kinship? 
  
-Yes, ideally it is. And if you think about it, using these symbols to identify opposite-sex marriage, parent-child, and sibling links makes a huge [[:ethnocentrism_and_cultural_relativism|ethnocentric]] assumption. It implies that, while people may have specific kin terms for kinship categories, they are fundamentally connected through heterosexual marriage and two-parent households. (And only have two genders.) +Yes, ideally it is. And if you think about it, using these symbols to identify opposite-sex marriage, parent--child, and sibling links makes a huge [[:ethnocentrism_and_cultural_relativism|ethnocentric]] assumption. It implies that, while people may have specific kin terms for kinship categories, they are fundamentally connected through heterosexual marriage and two-parent households. (And only have two genders.)  
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 +Perhaps for that reason, no two anthropologists make kinship diagrams the same way. This system is common, but it is never followed very strictly. Moreover, diagrams never exist alone. No one claims that they represent an absolute truth about people. For a good anthropologist, they must be complemented with an ethnographic description informed by an [[:emic_and_etic|emic, insider's perspective]]. 
  
-Perhaps for that reason, no two anthropologists make kinship diagrams the same way. This system is common, but it is never followed very strictly. Moreover, diagrams never exist alone. No one claims that they represent an absolute truth about people. For a good anthropologist, they must be complemented with an ethnographic description informed by an [[:emic_and_etic|emic, insider's perspective]].  
 ## Reference ## Reference
  
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