Research any topic before you write.

Find related topics. | Discover entities. | See connections. | Build a topical map.

Kinship: History & Art

In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. Anthropologist Robin Fox says that the study of kinship is the study of what humans do with these basic facts of life – mating, gestation…

Language: English [EN]
Use the mouse wheel or two fingers (on touchscreens) to zoom in and out of the map.
100%
More settings
100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Kinship topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Kinship.

Related topics
176
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
187
Extracted relationships
288
Concept neighborhoods
45
Bridge connections
187

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 82 topics
Basic concepts · 38 topics
History · 25 topics
Extensions of the kinship metaphor · 16 topics
Biology, psychology and kinship · 15 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Basic concepts

History

Biology, psychology and kinship

Extensions of the kinship metaphor

Bibliography

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Kinship connects Entity context

The extracted context around Kinship shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Kinship → Ambilateral, American Anthropologist, An Anthropological Perspective, Anthony, Anthropological Theory, Archived, Arizona Press, Atkins, Attachment, Barnes, Biological Approaches, Bob, Boon, Bowlby, Bringing, Bronislaw, California Press, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Compatibility Between Cultural Another extracted example is Kinship → An Interactive Tutorial Archived, An Introduction, Anglo-Saxon Civil Law, Archived, AusAnthrop, CA, Degrees, Descent Systems, Duties, Esq, Family Organization Dennis O'Neil, Introduction, Kinship According, Kurt, Manitoba, Nature, Nilson, Palomar College, Relatives, San Marcos. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Kinship

Top relations

related to Bibliography · 112
Kinship → Ambilateral, American Anthropologist, An Anthropological Perspective, Anthony, Anthropological Theory, Archived, Arizona Press, Atkins, Attachment, Barnes, Biological Approaches, Bob, Boon, Bowlby, Bringing, Bronislaw, California Press, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Compatibility Between Cultural
related to External links · 25
Kinship → An Interactive Tutorial Archived, An Introduction, Anglo-Saxon Civil Law, Archived, AusAnthrop, CA, Degrees, Descent Systems, Duties, Esq, Family Organization Dennis O'Neil, Introduction, Kinship According, Kurt, Manitoba, Nature, Nilson, Palomar College, Relatives, San Marcos
related to Kinship networks and social process · 22
Kinship → Among, Argonauts, Australian, Barotse, British, Clyde Mitchell, Gluckman, Gluckman's Manchester, He, John Barnes, Malinowski, More, Northern Rhodesia, Radcliffe-Brown, Social Networks, Source, The, The Andaman Islands, Urban Situations, Victor Turner
related to Schneider's critique of genealogical concepts · 15
Kinship → American, American Culture, Americans, Before, Critique, David, Europe, He, His, In, Morgan's, Schneider, Schneider's, The Study, Yap
related to Evolutionary psychology · 13
Kinship → An, Another, Daly, Evolutionary, In, One, Sahlin's, See Major Histocompatibility Complex, Sexual Selection, The, This, Wilson, Yet
related to Nonreductive biology and nurture kinship · 11
Kinship → Hamilton, Holland, Holland's, Human, In, Kin, Robin Fox, Schneider, Schneider's, Social, The
related to Recognition of fluidity in kinship meanings and relations · 11
Kinship → Barnes, British Social Anthropology, Building, Edmund Leach, For, From, His, Lévi-Strauss's, New Guinea Highlands, Pul Eliya, This
related to history · 10
Kinship → Affinity, Anthropology, As, Consanguinity, Evidence, Human, Human Family, Morgan's Systems, One, The
related to Biology, psychology and kinship · 9
Kinship → Abuse, Because, Biology, Independently, Like Schneider, Marshall Sahlins, Notably, The, The Use
related to Composition of relations · 9
Kinship → An, For, Here, PP, PT, PTP, Suppose, The, Then

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

social descent may societies marriage relationship also group groups human relationships relations one terms matrilineal patterns genetic family biological children

Kinship relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 288 structured relationships around Kinship. Examples in this analysis include Kinship → is a → web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies and Kinship → is a → study of what humans do with these basic facts of life. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Kinshipis aweb of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies0.90text
Kinshipis astudy of what humans do with these basic facts of life0.90text
Kinshipis aprivileged system and if so0.90text
in migrant communitiesinstance ofA new generation of anthropologist study the processes of doing kinship in new contexts0.80text
in queer familiesinstance ofA new generation of anthropologist study the processes of doing kinship in new contexts0.80text
Morganinstance ofwhich they readily connected with the genealogy approach of early anthropologists0.80text
the incest tabooinstance ofThis kinship detection system in turn affects other genetic predispositions0.80text
a tendency for altruism towards relatives.One issue within this approach is why many societies organize according to descentinstance ofThis kinship detection system in turn affects other genetic predispositions0.80text
visitation rights or joint custody.The termsinstance ofwith whom a separate parent-child relationship may be maintained through arrangements0.80text
Kinshiprelated to "Kinship system" as systemic patternThe0.60section
Kinshiprelated to "Kinship system" as systemic patternMany0.60section
Kinshiprelated to "Kinship system" as systemic patternHowever0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Kinship bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Social, Human and Patterns. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Kinship
    • Social
    • Human
    • Patterns
    • Relations
    • Marriage
    • Also
    • Systems
    • Societies
    • Terms
    • May
    • Study
    • Relationships
  • kinship
    • Social
    • Human
    • Patterns
    • Relations
    • Marriage
    • Also
    • Systems
    • Societies
    • Terms
    • May
    • Study
    • Relationships
  • consanguinity
    • Systems
    • Family
    • Terms
    • Human
    • Study
    • System
    • Also
    • Relations
    • Group
    • One
    • Relationships
    • Descent
  • fictive kinship
    • Social
    • Human
    • Patterns
    • Relations
    • Marriage
    • Also
    • Systems
    • Societies
    • Terms
    • May
    • Study
    • Relationships
  • descent
    • Group
    • Groups
    • Matrilineal
    • Societies
    • Relations
    • Patrilineal
    • Marriage
    • Family
    • May
    • Kinship
    • One
    • Consanguinity
  • social groups
    • Descent
    • Biological
    • Groups
    • Social
    • Human
    • Also
    • Many
    • See
    • Relations
    • Patterns
    • One
    • Two
  • kinship terminologies
    • Social
    • Human
    • Patterns
    • Relations
    • Marriage
    • Also
    • Systems
    • Societies
    • Terms
    • May
    • Study
    • Relationships
  • family
    • Systems
    • Relationship
    • People
    • Child
    • One
    • Human
    • Study
    • System
    • Relations
    • Kinship
    • Societies
    • Terms

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Kinship, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Kinship with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
KinshipOverview · splits 105 ⟂ 83
KinshipBasic concepts · splits 149 ⟂ 39
KinshipHistory · splits 162 ⟂ 26
KinshipExtensions of the kinship metaphor · splits 171 ⟂ 17
KinshipBiology, psychology and kinship · splits 172 ⟂ 16
KinshipBibliography · splits 182 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Kinship

Nodes188
Edges187
Triples288
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010638
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Kinship to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Kinship · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

For writers, content strategists, SEOs, marketers and creators — from quick topic research to advanced semantic analysis.