line of descent
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Kinship
In
anthropology,
kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of most humans in most societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. Anthropologist
Robin Fox states that "the study of kinship is the study of what man does with these basic facts of lifemating, gestation, parenthood,
socialization, siblingship etc." Human society is unique, he argues, in that we are "working with the same raw material as exists in the animal world, but [we] can conceptualize and categorize it to serve social ends." These social ends include the socialization of children and the formation of basic economic, political and religious groups.
line of descent
Noun
1. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
(synonym) descent, lineage, filiation
(hypernym) kinship, family relationship, relationship
(hyponym) bilateral descent
2. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
(synonym) lineage, line, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(hypernym) genealogy, family tree
(hyponym) family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry