Collateral (kinship)
# Collateral (kinship)

Part of a series on the :

Anthropology of kinship :

Basic concepts

Family

Lineage

Affinity

Consanguinity

Marriage

Incest taboo

Endogamy

Exogamy

Moiety

Monogamy

Polygyny

Polygamy

Concubinage

Polyandry

Bride price

Bride service

Dowry

Parallel / cross cousins

Cousin marriage

Levirate

Sororate

Ghost marriage

Joking relationship

Clan

Cohabitation

Fictive / Milk / Nurture kinship

Descent

Cognatic / Bilateral

Matrilateral

Lineal

Collateral

House society

Avunculate

Linealities

Ambilineality

Unilineality

Matrilineality

Patrilineality

Household forms and residence

Extended

Matrifocal

Matrilocal

Neolocal

Nuclear

Patrilocal :

Terminology

Kinship terminology

Classificatory terminologies

By group

Iroquois

Crow

Omaha

Eskimo (Inuit)

Hawaiian

Sudanese

Dravidian (debated) :

Case studies

Australian Aboriginal

Burmese

Chinese

Philippine

Polyandry in Tibet / in India

Feminist

Chambri

Mosuo

Sexuality

Coming of Age in Samoa :

Major theorists

Diane Bell

Tom Boellstorff

Jack Goody

Gilbert Herdt

Don Kulick

Roger Lancaster

Louise Lamphere

Eleanor Leacock

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Bronisław Malinowski

Margaret Mead

Henrietta Moore

Lewis H. Morgan

Stephen O. Murray

Michelle Rosaldo

Gayle Rubin

David M. Schneider

Marilyn Strathern :

Related articles

Alliance theory

Matrilineal / matrilocal societies

Feminist anthropology

Sex and Repression in Savage Society

Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship

"The Traffic in Women" :

Social anthropology Cultural anthropology :

vte :

Collateral is a term used in kinship to describe kin, or lines of kin, that are not in a direct line of descent from an individual. Examples of collateral relatives include siblings of parents or grandparents and their descendants (uncles, aunts, and cousins). Collateral descent is contrasted with lineal descent: those related directly by a line of descent such as the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of an individual. Though both forms are consanguineal (blood relations), collaterals are neither ancestors nor descendants of a given person. In legal terminology, 'Collateral descendant' refers to relatives descended from a sibling of an ancestor, and thus a niece, nephew, or cousin.

