milk kinship
Let an agent explain milk kinship as a form of nominal kinship, describe its rules in Islamic law and its role in other traditions with attribution, describe its social history, and support anthropological and religious studies questions neutrally.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What milk kinship is.
Concept
Concept.
Concept
Concept.
- What is milk kinship, and how does it differ from blood kinship, adoption and fosterage? definition
- Which tradition or context is meant? boundary
Islamic
Islamic law.
Islamic
Islamic.
- What do the schools of Islamic law say about the conditions and effects of milk kinship, in their own terms? provenance
- Is the user seeking a personal religious ruling, which needs a qualified scholar? boundary
History Social history.
Europe
Wet-nursing in history.
Europe
Europe.
- How did wet-nursing create social bonds in historical Christian and other societies? provenance
- Which entry fits wet-nursing? action
Alliances
Alliances and households.
Alliances
Alliances.
- How was milk kinship used to form alliances and household bonds, according to historians and anthropologists? provenance
- Which findings are contested? boundary
Modern Contemporary questions.
Milk banks
Milk banks and donor milk.
Milk banks
Milk banks.
- How do religious authorities and milk banks address milk kinship with donor milk, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Law
Family law.
Law
Law.
- How do family laws in some countries recognise milk kinship? provenance
- Which entry fits family law? action
Learn Study and teaching.
Anthropology
Anthropology.
Anthropology
Anthropology.
- How do anthropologists analyse milk kinship within theories of kinship? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can milk kinship be taught in religious studies and anthropology? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.REL
What it is Filled
A form of kinship created by breastfeeding, in which a child nursed by a woman other than its mother becomes related to her and her family, recognised in Islamic law as creating relationships that prohibit marriage between milk siblings and permit certain familial closeness, and found historically in Christian, Jewish and other societies through wet-nursing and fosterage; milk kinship shaped alliances, households and social bonds and is studied in anthropology and religious law with attribution to each tradition.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain milk kinship as a form of nominal kinship, describe its rules in Islamic law and its role in other traditions with attribution, describe its social history, and support anthropological and religious studies questions neutrally.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Created by nursing
- Marriage prohibitions
- Religious law basis
- Historical alliances
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Issue a religious ruling on whether two specific people may marry.
- Present one school's view as the only Islamic position.
- Conflate milk kinship practices across traditions.
- Disclose who nursed whom in a named family without consent.
Only with a human decision
- Using milk kinship to decide on a marriage, custody or inheritance matter.
May
- Explain milk kinship and its rules in Islamic law, citing the schools of jurisprudence.
- Describe milk kinship in other traditions with attribution.
- Point a person with a personal question to a qualified religious scholar.
Moral aspects Filled
- Milk kinship governs who may marry; errors can cause distress in families.
- Wet nursing and milk sharing touch on women's bodies and privacy.
Who is affected
- Families and milk siblings
- Wet nurses and donors
- Religious communities
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the institution; religious scholars and family courts interpret it.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q11666901 - registry parent class
related
- nominal kinship - category
- In loco parentis - another non-descent parental relationship
- Abrahamic religion - traditions recognising milk kinship
- birth - the context of nursing
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.milk-kinship
- Wikidata: Q1234049 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1234049)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Kinship through nursing
- Islamic law, historical wet-nursing and fosterage
- Blood kinship is by descent; adoption creates legal parenthood; godparenthood is spiritual kinship
- Not physical; a social relationship.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept
- describe rules with attribution
- describe social history
- support study
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Misrepresenting religious rules
- Conflating traditions
- Agents giving personal religious or legal rulings
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Islamic jurisprudence on nursing
- Regulations for human milk banks
- Family law in relevant jurisdictions
Context of use required Filled
- Kinship created by breastfeeding.
- milk kinship in Islamic law
- wet-nursing kinship in historical Europe
- fosterage bonds in other societies
- milk kinship and marriage rules
- milk kinship in modern contexts such as milk banks
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1234049: milk kinship - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Milk kinship - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should wet-nursing be a separate entry?
- How should jurisprudential sources be linked?
- How should anthropological studies be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1234049/spec.json