... agnates ; 11 but a wife not in manu was not her children's agnate , nor were children who had been emancipated or otherwise capite minuti ( § 29 ) the agnates of either their brothers and sisters or their mother in manu . A man was an ...
Natalie R. Inman focuses in particular on the Chickasaw Colbert family, the Anglo-American Donelson family, and the Cherokee families of Attakullakulla (Little Carpenter) and Major Ridge.
This book employs a broad analysis of Chinese patriliny to propose a distinctive theoretical conceptualization of the role of desire in culture.
... agnates do not appear as heirs any more frequently than they do for the population as a whole . Close female relatives were preferred as heirs over more distant male agnates . Only one case is re- corded in which the claims of distant ...
... agnates , because they are members of an ideal family which once was actual ; and the descendants of those descendants are more remotely agnates , because , though never members of an actual family , they would have been so if the ...
... agnates do not as a rule suffer a loss of status . Most have equal access to garden land , cooperative labor , hunting grounds , plant- ing material , and other agnatic resources . For the incoming non- agnate , there is a rather fine ...
... agnates but are other- wise relatives ( cognati , " cognates " ) by natural law . Thus , the relationship be- tween an uncle and the son of his sister is not agnate but cognate . Likewise , the son of an aunt on my father's or mother's ...