Ethnology, Volume 15University of Pittsburgh, 1976 - Anthropology |
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Page 67
... elite class of Limbu who stand in much the same position to the majority of the poorer Limbu as do the high caste Hindus . Differential access to land provides the key to an understanding of the differ- ences between elite Limbu of ...
... elite class of Limbu who stand in much the same position to the majority of the poorer Limbu as do the high caste Hindus . Differential access to land provides the key to an understanding of the differ- ences between elite Limbu of ...
Page 363
... elite community in British territory . In traditional times , lineages as corporate groups reinforced their elite status by investing in highly visible symbols of wealth and power . The most obvious of these symbols are the ancestral ...
... elite community in British territory . In traditional times , lineages as corporate groups reinforced their elite status by investing in highly visible symbols of wealth and power . The most obvious of these symbols are the ancestral ...
Page 371
... elite lineages came to draw clear distinctions between agnates and outsiders . People outside the patrilineal group were defined as potential enemies , including affines in San Tin's case , and were not therefore subject to the same ...
... elite lineages came to draw clear distinctions between agnates and outsiders . People outside the patrilineal group were defined as potential enemies , including affines in San Tin's case , and were not therefore subject to the same ...
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