Ethnology, Volume 15University of Pittsburgh, 1976 - Anthropology |
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Page 27
... cash or other property , but most parents feel that they are not giving their daughter a proper dowry if they do not give her a house . Cash dowries are rare in island marriages ; but if the couple are going to live in Athens , the ...
... cash or other property , but most parents feel that they are not giving their daughter a proper dowry if they do not give her a house . Cash dowries are rare in island marriages ; but if the couple are going to live in Athens , the ...
Page 66
... cash needed for redemption of their lands . The amount of the mortgage was frequently increased through interest - free loans known as bad , whereby the Limbu mortgager acquires cash from the mortgagee by threatening to buy back the ...
... cash needed for redemption of their lands . The amount of the mortgage was frequently increased through interest - free loans known as bad , whereby the Limbu mortgager acquires cash from the mortgagee by threatening to buy back the ...
Page 242
... cash , by patrons . The types of people referred to as paniwallu are service and artisan castes involved in jajmani relationships , village servants , and ritual specialists . The first two are not exclusive categories since most of the ...
... cash , by patrons . The types of people referred to as paniwallu are service and artisan castes involved in jajmani relationships , village servants , and ritual specialists . The first two are not exclusive categories since most of the ...
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