Kinship
The society of the Korwa is based on kinship. The family, lineage and clan are corporeal kin groups’ based on blood relations, marriage takes place out of the blood relatives. But marriage creates a set of new relatives. Thus, the kinship system of the Kisan presents a model of relationship based on the concept of consanguinity and affinity. As there is no clear cut clan system, they do not perform marriage between boy and girl who are related from father and mother side up to three generations. They avoid cousin marriages strictly.
The kisan use classificatory as well as descriptive kinship terminology for naming their blood and marriage relatives. They behave following the rules of kinship usages like avoidance, joking and takenoynmy. In the Kisan family, the inheritance and succession are patrilineal. The customs of primogeniture and ultimogeniture are not found.
At the time of marriage and death all kindred of an individual are invited orally. Reciprocal exchange of good, services, money, gifts, presentations etc. takes place on those occasions.
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