According to Ancient Minoan marriage rules, first cousin marriages were nothing unusual in the particular society.

A new study reveals how mathematical models can explain the formation and evolution of human societies and kinship systems.

Cosmologically the fire has an intimate cultural connection with the institutions of family and kinship, the rituals, customs, ceremonies of birth, marriage and death which invoke Agni.

From this, we understand that traditions and respect for the elderly, when preserved in their true essence, serve as a ...

Two family trees comprising six generations and some 500 related individuals reveal that different marriage networks kept ... that the communities had similar kinship practices.

While anyone of any zodiac sign can get married, a few star signs stand out as the least likely to be interested or involved ...

I am writing with reference to the proposed Bill on banning first-cousin marriages in the UK. Although there are some risks associated with consanguineous marriages, the overall risk is still ...

Drawing on course readings and the class conveners’ own research, students will engage with key theoretical debates on core concepts like 'kinship,' 'marriage,' 'gender(s),' 'sexualities,' and ...

Ike Reilly has played Youngstown many times over the past two decades, but his upcoming appearance feels different.

In the description of her superb 1994 memoir Faithfull, she was bedevilled by “grotesque contracts, lying, cheating crafty legalisms, mad and bungling managers and barbaric schedules”. Relief of a ...

Although relatedness does not necessarily coincide with social kinship, it often correlates with it. Researchers can sometimes reconstruct genealogies or networks of close and distant biological ...