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Kinship, an Uncommon card
In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 76
- Power
- 156
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 156 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Kinship quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Kinship card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
These social ends include the ______ of children and the formation of basic economic, political and religious groups.
Answer
socialization. These social ends include the socialization of children and the formation of basic economic, political and religious groups. From the Kinship article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Metric space. Metric space 83 · Kinship 80 · Yue Chinese 75 · Ifá 71 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Anthropologist Robin Fox says that the study of kinship is the study of what humans do with these basic facts of life – mating, gestation, parenthood, socialization, siblingship, etc. Human society is unique, he argues, in that we are "working with the same raw material as exists in the animal world, but [we] can conceptualize and categorize it to serve social ends".
- These social ends include the socialization of children and the formation of basic economic, political and religious groups.
- Kinship can refer both to the patterns of social relationships themselves, or it can refer to the study of the patterns of social relationships in one or more human cultures.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Kinship article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 76: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Kinship
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Kinship (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Afghanistan Matters from Brunssum, Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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