Cultural Anthropology: Kinship and Roles of Elderly Individuals

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Introduction
Kin relationship refers to relations by marriage of blood. This relationship is common for all
types of societies. Apart from blood and marriage these relationship also refers to
consanguineal relatives. The term consanguineous refers to the relatives made by blood ties.
According to the study of anthropology marriage is the process that establishes a social
recognition as a basic niche of living. This procedure includes union sanctions of a couple
along with issue reproduction. The type of kin is determined by one person will be variant
from those documented by any other. The two main types of kin relations are affinal kins and
consanguineal kins (Young 2013). The bond of marriage related persons are called affinal
relationships. The bond between the persons due to blood relation are called consanguineal
relations or cognates.
Cultural kinship refers to relation between persons having family ties. The concept of
cultural system giving birth to other types of kinships including adoptive kin, blended kin
(existence of mix culture), fictive family (persons unrelated by birth or marriage). These
relationships are as powerful as biological kinship. To identify the connectivity of generation
the question that always strikes on our mind is that, what is the extent of our generation?
According to the study of anthropology, generally from the current generation up to twenty-
five years back can be considered the member of a family. The other domain of studies
namely sociological demography defines that male-line group including from father to son is
longer than female-line group, which includes from mother to daughter. In my family, the
concept of surrogacy does not exist. Hence, as per the study I can go back to twenty-five
years before my birth to consider the person as my family member. The members of my
family are connected with each other through biology. It has a direct connection with the term

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consanguineal kin. In simple word it reflects the concept that all my ancestors share the same
biological bond as my father with me.
Part two – A Elderly Lives- Cross-culture perspectives
Response to question no- 1
The family structure of Japan and United States provides an empirical basis for
assumption about the structure of a household. The family structure of traditional America
includes the presence of a marital couple providing sufficient amount of care to their
children. However, the concept of nuclear family is becoming irrelevant according to the
social culture of America Schneider, (David 2014). Japanese culture assures introduction of
proper care to the elderly members of the family (age 65 and above) including both the male
and female members.
Response to question no- 2
Japanese has an indirect link between the collective nature of the society with the tacit
of communication. Mutual understanding has no requirement of openness of expression
including personal desires and thoughts. The second surprising issue mentioned in this book
is the claim for linguistic aspects have unmediated effect on the presentation of social
personifications (Morgan 2013).
Response to question no- 3
The field work at lake district is simply interesting and compelling for mentioning the
scenic beauty of the mountainous regions of the North West England. The scenic beauty of
this place mentions a place that is appropriate for planning a proper vacation with the family
members. The scenic beauty also presents the calm and soothing dense forest along with