'''Family''' denotes a group of people affiliated by a common ancestry, affinity or co-residence. Although the [[concept]] of consanguinity originally referred to relations by "blood," [[Anthropology|anthropologists]] have argued that one must understand the idea of "blood" [[metaphor]]ically, and that many societies understand 'family' through other concepts rather than through genetic proximity. | '''Family''' denotes a group of people affiliated by a common ancestry, affinity or co-residence. Although the [[concept]] of consanguinity originally referred to relations by "blood," [[Anthropology|anthropologists]] have argued that one must understand the idea of "blood" [[metaphor]]ically, and that many societies understand 'family' through other concepts rather than through genetic proximity. |