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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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- North Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1850-1950
- Coverage Place
- lower Amur River basin, and northern Sakhalin Island, Russia
- Notes
- Lydia T. Black
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 1248)
- LCCN
- 17015424
- LCSH
- Gilyak