Cross-culturally, the most common way of emphasizing some kinds of kinship relationships and de-emphasizing others

a. is based on geographical distance.
b. considers the names given to each member of a kin group.
c. uses the sex of the connecting relatives as the basis of defining kin.
d. None of these; there is no common means of delimiting kinship relationships.


c

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