matrikin


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one related on the mother's side

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The logic of the situation is that matrikin helped their sisters' sons with the possum payments to their inlaws; in turn the sisters' sons joined with their sisters' sons to help them.
Naturally, when matrikin join a patriline cluster, exemplified by the Kanakaimaknga people attached to Hangitau family at Nauti, they can hardly be converted into fictional agnates.
Fratricide and inequality: things fall apart in eastern New Guinea
Although her eider female matrikin might have preferred to retain the matrilineal control of customary law, they would be comfortable enough with the provisions of the community property option to find it an acceptable compromise for the next generation.
Inventing the African family: gender and family law reform in Cote D'Ivoire
As close as these people are, the relationship is not one of the same blood as it is with matrikin. Thus with them, one always feels a sense of shame (hinimaya).
Owners, especially the immediate matrikin, also dou with the mourners.
Sit, cool eat, full stop: religion and the rejection of ritual in Auhelawa (Papua New Guinea)
The former, mirroring Wiru procreation beliefs in their constitution as a form of body, are used predominantly as payments in life-cycle exchanges, and ironically represent the time and space in which debts of body are paid off to matrikin. If maiyo are a form of (androgynous) body, with a head, stomach, and legs, which are transacted in a processual and temporal context by individuals, then group owned yombo maiyo refer to the cosmological dimension in which notions of group reproduction and cyclical continuity are located.
Shit beautiful: tambu and kina revisited
They occupy longhouses, composed of close agnates, matrikin and affines, welded into a single community.
Between body and mind: shamans and politics among the Anga, Baktaman and Gebusi in Papua New Guinea
And I say thank you to all the members of the family and to the matrikin for organizing today's work.
The triumph of capitalism in East New Britain? A contemporary Papua New Guinean rhetoric of motives
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