Ethnology, Volume 15University of Pittsburgh, 1976 - Anthropology |
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... ritual , while poorer ones hold a simple ceremony in the home without the aid of a Brahman . Instead , the head of the household conducts a short ritual with a few invited guests , who offer money and give the child its first bites of ...
... ritual , while poorer ones hold a simple ceremony in the home without the aid of a Brahman . Instead , the head of the household conducts a short ritual with a few invited guests , who offer money and give the child its first bites of ...
Page 295
... ritual resolution process in cases involving symbolic aggression was the intervention of a ritual specialist . In all such cases , summoning the appropriate specialist became mandatory . Should he fail to come , it was believed that ...
... ritual resolution process in cases involving symbolic aggression was the intervention of a ritual specialist . In all such cases , summoning the appropriate specialist became mandatory . Should he fail to come , it was believed that ...
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... ritual resolution , and the members of the woman's natal lineage were in a good position to use ndon as a lever in pressing for the redress of any past grievances . When the son - in - law came to request that they perform rituals ...
... ritual resolution , and the members of the woman's natal lineage were in a good position to use ndon as a lever in pressing for the redress of any past grievances . When the son - in - law came to request that they perform rituals ...
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