1. Robin Fox:
“Kinship is simply the relations between ‘kin ‘that is persons related by real, putative or fictive consanguinity “.
2. Aberchrombie and others:
“The social relationships deriving from blood ties (real and supposed) and marriage are collectively referred to as kinship”.
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3. A.R. Radcliffe Brown:
Kinship is “a system of dynamic relations between person and person in a community, the behaviour of any two persons in any of these relations being regulated in some way, and to a greater or less extent by social usage “,
4. In simple words:
“The bond of blood or marriage which binds people together in group is called kinship”.