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| A circle |
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represents a female |
| A triangle |
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represents a male |
| An equal sign |  |
represents a marriage |
| A vertical line |  |
represents descent or parentage |
| A horizontal line |  |
represents a sibling bond. |
Before we begin to understand kinship, we need to define some basis symbols that are used in constructing kinship diagrams, the fundamental tool for defining concepts and representing case studies.
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| A circle |
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represents a female |
| A triangle |
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represents a male |
| An equal sign | |
represents a marriage |
| A vertical line | |
represents descent or parentage |
| A horizontal line | |
represents a sibling bond. |
Relationships are traced through a central individual labelled EGO.
These various elements are joined to produce a kinship diagram as follows:
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Can you identify all of Ego's relatives depicted above?
