Ethnology, Volume 15University of Pittsburgh, 1976 - Anthropology |
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... San Tin had dealings with a government bureaucrat or a market town merchant he could rely on lineage leaders to act as his intermediaries . The Man lineage also maintained its own militia for protection against bandits and encroaching ...
... San Tin had dealings with a government bureaucrat or a market town merchant he could rely on lineage leaders to act as his intermediaries . The Man lineage also maintained its own militia for protection against bandits and encroaching ...
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... San Tin , and maintained that only the wealthiest families in the lineage could afford the luxury of hereditary servants . Hsi min did not them- selves generate any surplus ; they consumed it . Other lineage villages in the region were ...
... San Tin , and maintained that only the wealthiest families in the lineage could afford the luxury of hereditary servants . Hsi min did not them- selves generate any surplus ; they consumed it . Other lineage villages in the region were ...
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freedom in San Tin during traditional times . On the other hand , it was relatively easy for the local slaves to run away and seek employment in a distant market town or city . They were not shackled or locked up in their dwellings at ...
freedom in San Tin during traditional times . On the other hand , it was relatively easy for the local slaves to run away and seek employment in a distant market town or city . They were not shackled or locked up in their dwellings at ...
Contents
Changing Icelandic Kinship | 1 |
Property and Ritual | 21 |
Measuring Marriage Preference | 35 |
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affinal agnates agricultural intensity Altirdning Anthropology Anuak behavior BG BG blood boat brothers Camaxtli camp cent child Chinese clan Coast Salish codes contracts correlation cultural Dani daughter descent group dowry eating economic ethnographic exogamous father female feuding friends friendship Gabra genealogical distance Hindu homesteads household husband Icelandic important Indian individual informants initiated interaction jajmani kinship kinsmen kupa labor land Limbu lineage living male male pregnancy Mallannapalle marriage married matrilineal means menstruation moiety myths ndon negative reciprocity neighbors Nepal Nisos nuclear family Ocotlán owners parents pattern persons phratry political pollution population density possum rank relationship relatives religious reserve residence ritual resolution Sahlins sample San Tin sectoral distance sexual share Shilluk slavery slaves social societies status structure syncretic Table Teacapán Tlaxcala traditional transactions variables Vasilika Victoria village Virgin wife woman women Xochiquetzalli