Ethnology, Volume 15University of Pittsburgh, 1976 - Anthropology |
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... fertile enough to support a large , nearly continuous , string of settlements running along the river . While possessing ... fertility of the soil , by the recurrence of the rainy seasons , by irrigation , effected by an atmosphere ...
... fertile enough to support a large , nearly continuous , string of settlements running along the river . While possessing ... fertility of the soil , by the recurrence of the rainy seasons , by irrigation , effected by an atmosphere ...
Page 178
... fertility by super- natural means . Thus , it is very remarkable that the traditional title of this leader refers to patrifiliation instead of descent , and , consequently , authority in both the political and ritual spheres is equated ...
... fertility by super- natural means . Thus , it is very remarkable that the traditional title of this leader refers to patrifiliation instead of descent , and , consequently , authority in both the political and ritual spheres is equated ...
Page 308
... fertility overtones . The festivities associated with the cult of Xochiquetzalli also represent an interesting convergence with the spring festivals associated in Christian Europe with the month of the flowers , which began in the ...
... fertility overtones . The festivities associated with the cult of Xochiquetzalli also represent an interesting convergence with the spring festivals associated in Christian Europe with the month of the flowers , which began in 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