Sib (anthropology)

Sib is a technical term in the discipline of anthropology which originally denoted a kinship group among Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic peoples. In an extended sense, it then became the standard term for a variety of other kinds of lineal (matrilineal or patrilineal) or cognatic (i.e.,descended through links of both sexes) kinship groups. The word may also denote a member of such a group.^[1]

American anthropologists often used the term 'sib' as the generic term for a category that breaks down into the sub-classifications of patri-sib, referring to patrilineal clan descent, and matri-sib, to refer to matrilineal clan descent.^[2]

Footnotes

^ Oxford English Dictionary 1989, p. 404
^ Fox 1967, pp. 49–50

References

Oxford English Dictionary. Vol. XV (2nd ed.). Clarendon Press. 1989.
Fox, Robin (1967). Kinship and Marriage. Penguin.
Berreman, Gerald D. (October 1962). "Sib and Clan among the Pahari of North India". Ethnology. 1 (4). University of Pittsburgh: 524–528. doi:10.2307/3772855. JSTOR 3772855.
Lowie, Robert H. (January 1919). "Family and Sib". American Anthropologist. 21 (1). Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association: 28–40. doi:10.1525/aa.1919.21.1.02a00030.
Lessells, C. M.; G. A. Parker (August 1999). "Parent-Offspring Conflict: The Full-Sib-Half-Sib Fallacy". Biological Sciences. 266 (1429). The Royal Society: 1637–1643. doi:10.1098/rspb.1999.0826. PMC 1690187.

[1] Oxford English Dictionary 1989, p. 404

[2] Fox 1967, pp. 49–50

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