Emphasizing continuity rather than change, women's life-storytelling reveals their deep involvement in extensive kin-based social networks (consanguineal, affinal, fictive), but places marriage and uterine ties consistently in the narrative foreground. From Wordnik.com. [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference
It would be tempting to accept the theory (implied by White and Junod) that women's tattoos were an inscription of consanguineal kinship intended as evidenceperhaps for husbands and affinesthat wives 'affective loyalties lay permanently with their natal clan. From Wordnik.com. [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference
In North America, marriages between consanguineal kin are strongly discouraged. From Wordnik.com. [South Dakota Politics] Reference
Then he said coolly, 'Mademoiselle, you are the victim of consanguineal sorcery.'. From Wordnik.com. [Là-bas] Reference
Each one of the Blackfoot tribes is subdivided into gentes, a gens being a body of consanguineal kindred in the male line. From Wordnik.com. [Blackfoot Lodge Tales] Reference
It may also be a patruate cousin-group and an avunculate cousin-group; and in general, every member of a brother-group has the same consanguineal relation to persons outside of the group as that of every other member. From Wordnik.com. [The Siouan Indians] Reference
In all of these stages the conjugal and consanguineal regulations are affected by the militant habits characteristic of primitive groups; more warriors than women are slain in battle, and there are more female captives than male; and thus the polygamy is mainly or wholly polygyny. From Wordnik.com. [The Siouan Indians] Reference
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