What's the difference between kinship and totem?

Kinship


Definition:

  • (n.) Family relationship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As an extension to the variety of existing techniques using polymorphic DNA markers, the Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique may be used in molecular ecology to determine taxonomic identity, assess kinship relationships, analyse mixed genome samples, and create specific probes.
  • (2) This paper presents a FORTRAN IV subroutine to calculate inbreeding and kinship coefficients from pedigree information in a diploid population without self-fertilization.
  • (3) The gender-specific kinship relationship of patients and their care providers has not generally been investigated in studies of caregiver burden and well-being.
  • (4) The findings suggest a genetic kinship among the Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, and Jersey, on the one hand, and between the Holstein and Guernsey, on the other.
  • (5) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
  • (6) The experience of Berkeley House, a psychiatric halfway house, is related as an example of a program that has achieved successful community tenure for its patients through the creation of an extended psychosocial kinship system.
  • (7) Seen in this context, structural features of caring that are celebrated as strengths (its base in kinship relations where carers are unpaid, for example), can be experienced as problematic by those involved in caring.
  • (8) Of them each of thirty-eight groups had an adult female "nurse" monkey, who had no kinship with any of the 4 weanlings.
  • (9) Among female first cousins, however, patrilateral pairs have the highest degree of kinship and cross cousins the lowest in respect to X-linked genes.
  • (10) Demographic factors related to higher kinship levels include young age at marriage, large sibship size for both husband and wife, husband being a farmer, and marriages occurring in the marriage season (November or December).
  • (11) Surface EMG has been used to determine the average muscle fiber conduction velocity (MFCV) and power spectra of the m. biceps of 10 patients and 15 asymptomatic offspring of a large kinship with familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HOPP).
  • (12) Population-genetic surveys show that for the relatives of patients with type I diabetes mellitus (the 1st degree of kinship) a risk of developing the same type of diabetes is 2-5%.
  • (13) Although Burt's kinship correlations are higher than the average of other studies, his results are generally consistent with other data.
  • (14) Numerous authors have studied human cemetery remains with an eye toward identifying different socially stratified ethnic or kinship groups within the same population.
  • (15) A founder effect, or genetic drift, accounts for the familial aggregations of autosomal recessive and dominant conditions, some diseases of multifactorial determination, and other inherited conditions in Canadian kinships descending from this ancestral group.
  • (16) Cultural analyst Sherry Turkle warns we’re rapidly approaching a point where: “We may actually prefer the kinship of machines to relationships with real people and animals.” Certainly we have long had a fascination with these half-women, from The Bionic Woman in the 1970s to Her in 2013 , where Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his computer’s operating system.
  • (17) Kinship placements have a good track record, and with appropriate support and occasionally legal intervention, must not be overlooked."
  • (18) The clinicogenealogical method using a genetico-mathematic analysis was employed to examine 50 probands with sluggish hypochondriac schizophrenia (126 relatives of the first degree kinship).
  • (19) Both arguments draw on subject matter in psychoanalysis, physics, evolutionary biology, common-sense psychology, history, and medicine to arrive at a fundamental caveat for all of the sciences: Even when the thematic kinship (or so-called "meaning connection") between events is indeed of very high degree, this fact itself does not license the inference of a causal linkage between these events.
  • (20) Despite the similar emphasis on manpower and kinship criteria as the basis for the admission of immigrants, differences between Canada and the United States exist with respect to the importance of immigration for the respective economies, the organization of immigration, the formal regulations, and the size and composition of migrant streams.

Totem


Definition:

  • (n.) A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.
  • (2) How did Hilary Benn, Maria Eagle, Charles Falconer and Paul Kenny choose Trident as the totem of revolt?
  • (3) "We actually won Eton against the Tories – rather totemically," he says.
  • (4) But I also take seriously my responsibility to the American people Barack Obama Asked by Republican governors on Monday whether he might relent in the case of a pipeline extension that supporters argue will have negligible impact on greenhouse gas emissions but has been a totemic issue for environmentalists, Obama reportedly told the group it “ain’t gonna happen”.
  • (5) It would obviously and inevitably impose strain on the coalition, not least because Liberal Democrat activists regard this as something of a totem pole.
  • (6) For Labour, wealth tied up in property is a totemic issue, and not in a good way.
  • (7) There is an inability to break with the slavish, neoliberal worship of that abstract totem, the national economy.
  • (8) The date has a totemic significance for the regime of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, for whom it represents a traumatic climbdown – a moment in which the military’s apparently unassailable grip on power seemed to slip.
  • (9) Antonio Valencia raced around like the winger of a few seasons ago; Danny Welbeck discovered an extra yard of pace and an ability to spin opponents; Wayne Rooney was once more the whirling team totem, the closest to Roy Keane the club has had since the Irishman departed nine years ago.
  • (10) A small force of British soldiers has stayed on to train a new national army, and they are perceived in much of the country as a totemic guarantee of enduring peace.
  • (11) Corbyn made housing one of the totemic issues in his campaign for the Labour leadership and he has since said it is a top three policy priority.
  • (12) It has since opened the floodgates for second-rate totems that will soon turn this part of the river into mayor Boris Johnson's nightmare of " Dubai on Thames ".
  • (13) Last week's proposal that a mansion tax funds a new 10p tax rate would mean thousands of millionaires paying to help millions of taxpayers make ends meet and work pay is a totemic one-nation policy.
  • (14) It took me a long time to read them, but I did like having these totemic objects in the house."
  • (15) The issue has become a totemic one in the wake of the announcement of the Premier League’s huge new domestic TV deal , worth an overall £5.3bn, a figure that could rise to £8.5bn once overseas sales are factored in.
  • (16) For Momentum’s veteran element, it is as totemic now as it was in the early 1980s.
  • (17) The latter, which Freud described as a sequel to "Totem and Taboo", is seen as the acting out of the wish for parricide described in that work.
  • (18) He said the broadcast was being shown in more than 225 countries “that now hate us”, and gave the audience a chance to vent anti-Trump sentiment with a tribute to Meryl Streep , a totem of Hollywood hostility towards the US administration.
  • (19) The idea is reformulated in further works, among which, "A Souvenir of Leonardo da Vinci Infant", "Totem and Tabu", and "Three Essays", "The Loss of Reality in Neuroses and Psychosis", "The History of a Child's Neurosis", Mass Psychology and Ego Analysis", "The Ego and the Id", "An Outline of Psychoanalysis", and "The Malaise in Culture".
  • (20) In the interview with the Times, the former GP called for aid to be pulled from states that do not share Britain's values and said the Tories would need to outline "totemic" tax cuts in the run up to the 2015 poll.