Motif
Affinal reciprocity and marriage-linked relations
affinal_reciprocity_and_marriage_linked_relations
A motif of the Sacred Exchange and Reciprocity family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
andamanese
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The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology LIST OF FIGURES IN THE TEXT / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I / THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION; lines 2308-2418 confidence: high
Otoni and oten refer to children-in-law and younger siblings’ spouses; aka-yat names the relationship between a person’s parents and parents-in-law; aka-bua names a consort’s younger siblings; ab-i-ŋa means husband or wife.
The passage defines consort, daughter’s husband, son’s wife, relation between parents and parents-in-law, and younger siblings of a spouse.
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