Ethnology, Volume 15University of Pittsburgh, 1976 - Anthropology |
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... suicide , the death of a pregnant woman , the burning of a hut , a fight in which calabashes of wine are broken , acts of symbolic aggression such as throwing a spear at an enemy's roof , and many others . Although Meta ' informants did ...
... suicide , the death of a pregnant woman , the burning of a hut , a fight in which calabashes of wine are broken , acts of symbolic aggression such as throwing a spear at an enemy's roof , and many others . Although Meta ' informants did ...
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... suicide by hanging one's self from a tree in the opponent's yard . All were believed to carry the threat of ndon to the person who was their target , and they were performed to bring pressure to bear on an intractable fellow disputant ...
... suicide by hanging one's self from a tree in the opponent's yard . All were believed to carry the threat of ndon to the person who was their target , and they were performed to bring pressure to bear on an intractable fellow disputant ...
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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