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This 18-word anthropology word search covers family structures and kinship terminology for high school students. Hidden words include nuclear family, polygyny, exogamy, bridewealth, and incest taboo, spanning family types, marriage systems, and descent patterns. Use it to reinforce a chapter on families and kinship in an anthropology or social studies class, as a vocabulary review before a quiz, or as a template for other cultural-studies units.

Subject:
Social Studies
Topic:
Anthropology
Grade Level:
9th – 12th Grades
Updated April 2022

Word List

  • KINSHIP
  • NUCLEARFAMILY
  • DESCENTGROUP
  • LINEAGE
  • CLAN
  • AFFINALRELATIONSHIP
  • MARRIAGE
  • ARRANGEDMARRIAGE
  • COMPANIONATEMARRIAGE
  • POLYGYNY
  • POLYANDRY
  • MONOGAMY
  • INCESTTABOO
  • EXOGAMY
  • BRIDEWEALTH
  • DOWRY
  • FAMILYOFORIENTATION
  • FAMILYOFPROCREATION

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