Michael D. Fischer's comprehensive and well-documented website Representing Anthropological Knowledge: Calculating Kinship may help students and others to cope with kinship in anthropology: "Kinship is one of the more important, pervasive and complex systems of culture. All human groups have a kinship terminology, a set of terms used to refer to kin. Many parts of life in all societies are impacted by kinship, and in most societies kinship relations influence things like who one can and can not marry, who one must show respect to, who one can joke with, and who one can count on in a crisis. The study of kinship is the greatest common denominator across the different fractions of social anthropology. [...] This unit introduces how we can use computers to address some of the issues that emerge from the complexity of kinship-related information and anthropological ideas about these." See an older story about an online kinship-tutorial, too.

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