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Relative status of wife givers and wife takers in Gilyak society
American anthropologist • 74 (6) • Published In 1972 • Pages: 1244-1248
By: Black, Lydia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses status differentiation between 'wife givers' and 'wife takers' in Nivkh soceity where prescriptive matrilateral cross cousin marriage was the ideal type. It uses information from a wide variety of ethnographic sources in Russian and English languages to argue that 'wife takers' did not always possess superior status over 'wife givers' as alleged by previous writers. Status differentials between inter-marrying lineages were instead related to land ownership, choice of residence and other contingencies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Status, role, and prestige
- Basis of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Real property
- Inter-community relations
- Settlement patterns
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nivkh
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- North Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- lower Amur River basin, and northern Sakhalin Island, Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lydia T. Black
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 1248)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Gilyak