Ethnology, Volume 9University of Pittsburgh, 1970 - Anthropology |
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Page 119
... gives no indication that seniority of the adopting father is of significance . Except for one case , however , it seems evident that genitors give girls away for adoption only if they have more than one . In the expectional case the ...
... gives no indication that seniority of the adopting father is of significance . Except for one case , however , it seems evident that genitors give girls away for adoption only if they have more than one . In the expectional case the ...
Page 124
... give her child away in adoption must ask the consent of her brother or another male member of her agnatic group . A single man or a married couple who wants to adopt a fatherless child must also make a request to the brother of the ...
... give her child away in adoption must ask the consent of her brother or another male member of her agnatic group . A single man or a married couple who wants to adopt a fatherless child must also make a request to the brother of the ...
Page 125
... give one or more of their own children away for adoption . If the two parties who have concluded an adoption later come to disagree , they have the right to annul the transaction . There has been only one such case among the present ...
... give one or more of their own children away for adoption . If the two parties who have concluded an adoption later come to disagree , they have the right to annul the transaction . There has been only one such case among the present ...
Contents
Labels and Rituals in Semai Classification | 16 |
Personal Shrines at Afikpo Simon Ottenberg | 26 |
Lappish Decisions Partnerships Information | 52 |
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adoption adult affinal Afikpo agnatic Amahuaca American Anthropologist AMLOXO analysis animals Anthropology AXALOXO Bajau Beaver behavior Bellona Bellonese boys brother Chhattisgarhi child clans consanguineal culture daughter Ego's ethnographic Ethnology father female Ego folktale fosterage genetrix genitor girls glossed goddess Guaymà Gurage HBC Arch herd household hunter hunting territories Igbo Indians individual Islands Jalé Kafa kin terms kin types kinship kinsmen Lac Seul land lineage linked London Maenge male marriage married married couple Mehinacu moiety mother Ngawbe nkamalo OE/OT Ojibwa Osnaburgh parallel cousins parents patrilineal descent patrilineal descent group personal shrines plants practice relationship relatives retirement ritual sacrifice Samoan seclusion Semai sexual siblings SiHu sister social organization society solidarity special terms spouse Star Husband tale structure subsistence techniques Table Tawi-Tawi terminology tion tribe variables variant village wife witchcraft woman women