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fictive kin
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fictive kin
[fik′tiv]
people who are regarded as being part of a family even though they are not related by either blood or marriage bonds. Fictive kinship may bind people together in ties of affection, concern, obligation, and responsibility.


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7) Dating back to the age of slavery, there has been an informal system of adoption and fictive kinship, which developed among black extended families.
In many societies, forms of fictive kinship like godparenthood that incorporate outsiders are as strong as blood ties (and this was how, in fact, many Kosovar Albanians saw their relationship with NATO).
Another interpretation of abang is the more prosaic meaning of elder brother or elder brother-in-law, which might reflect an attempt by Selimbau to mitigate future hostile relations with their long-time neighbors, sometime enemies and allies, and new economic competitors by emphasizing a fictive kinship relation or perhaps even referencing the Minsut story.
 
 
 
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