Ethnology, Volume 15University of Pittsburgh, 1976 - Anthropology |
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... means and the latter by relatively classificatory means . The Focal Group terms and the Indeterminate terms are the two subsystems used by Ego to designate in the first case , well - circumscribed and delimited groups of kin , and in ...
... means and the latter by relatively classificatory means . The Focal Group terms and the Indeterminate terms are the two subsystems used by Ego to designate in the first case , well - circumscribed and delimited groups of kin , and in ...
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These means by which Ego could refer in the singular to one parallel - cousin have entirely disappeared . The implication of the change is clear . Whereas under the old weregild system one's parallel - cousins were equivalent both in ...
These means by which Ego could refer in the singular to one parallel - cousin have entirely disappeared . The implication of the change is clear . Whereas under the old weregild system one's parallel - cousins were equivalent both in ...
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... mean clan and political unit territories . The mean of means and their range reflects variation across societies rather than within them . In approximately 80 per cent of the societies , averages of exogamous clan group territories fall ...
... mean clan and political unit territories . The mean of means and their range reflects variation across societies rather than within them . In approximately 80 per cent of the societies , averages of exogamous clan group territories fall ...
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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