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George Ellison (who goes unnamed in Millenium Hall, but is retroactively named in the sequel the History of Sir George Ellison) narrates the novel in the form of a letter to an old friend, though the narration occasionally changes between him and his cousin Mrs. Maynard, who tells all of the women's stories. He generally appears to be ...
In trying to resolve the problems of dubious inferences about kinship "systems", George P. Murdock (1949, Social Structure) compiled kinship data to test a theory about universals in human kinship in the way that terminologies were influenced by the behavioral similarities or social differences among pairs of kin, proceeding on the view that ...
In 1956, the concept of the matrifocal family was introduced to the study of Caribbean societies by Raymond T. Smith. He linked the emergence of matrifocal families with how households are formed in the region: "The household group tends to be matri-focal in the sense that a woman in the status of 'mother' is usually the de facto leader of the group, and conversely the husband-father, although ...
The kinship terms of Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) differ from the English system in certain respects. [1] In the Hindustani system, kin terms are based on gender, [2] and the difference between some terms is the degree of respect. [3] Moreover, "In Hindi and Urdu kinship terms there is clear distinction between the blood relations and affinal ...
George Ryley Scott (6 October 1886 [1] – 1955) was a prolific British author of books about sexual intercourse, active from the late 1920s to the 1950s. He also wrote on the subjects of poultry, health, corporal punishment , and writing itself.
Irawati Karve (15 December 1905 [1] – 11 August 1970) was an Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist and writer from Maharashtra, India.She was one of the students of G.S. Ghurye, the founder of sociology in India.
2015. ‘Punjabi Inscriptions of Kinship and Marriage’. In R. Chatterji ed. Wording the World: Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance. New York: Fordham. 2014. ‘Shaping Land Rights: Tenurial Class, Lineage and Gender in Malerkotla, India’. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies20 No. 4 (2). 2013. ‘Not so Boring.
In the Cree language, nêhiyaw wiyasowêwina literally translates to "Cree laws", with wiyasowêwina meaning the act of weaving. [1] However, law is almost invariably referred to as wahkohtowin, which means "kinship", [2] in reference to an individual's relationship with, and responsibilities within, the systems of which the individual is a part.