Ethnology, Volume 40University of Pittsburgh, 2001 - Anthropology |
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... means that the category of twinship maintains an important place in Igbo - speaking peoples ' world view . People tend to avoid others with whom they have a necessary but dangerously fraught relationship , using avoidance as a means to ...
... means that the category of twinship maintains an important place in Igbo - speaking peoples ' world view . People tend to avoid others with whom they have a necessary but dangerously fraught relationship , using avoidance as a means to ...
Page 68
... means Lo to aye wo , “ go and taste the world , " and Kehinde means Eni ti o kehin de , “ one who comes last . " We believe that Kehinde who comes last is the senior of the twins because it was Kehinde who asks Taiwo to come first to ...
... means Lo to aye wo , “ go and taste the world , " and Kehinde means Eni ti o kehin de , “ one who comes last . " We believe that Kehinde who comes last is the senior of the twins because it was Kehinde who asks Taiwo to come first to ...
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... means provided their daughters with dowries of significantly different value depending on the degree of status differential between the groom's family and their own . That is , hypergamy came at a price , and indirect dowry assured that ...
... means provided their daughters with dowries of significantly different value depending on the degree of status differential between the groom's family and their own . That is , hypergamy came at a price , and indirect dowry assured that ...
Contents
Reviewing Twinship in Africa Elisha P Renne and Misty L Bastian | 1 |
Abominable Twins and Mission Culture | 13 |
The Ordinariness of the | 29 |
Copyright | |
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