Chapter 10
1. This institution is now increasingly disappearing. For a description of this read, Verrierr Elwin, The Muria and Their Ghotul, Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1948.
2. In India, too, there is a movement in favour of gay unions.
3. A cross-cousin is a child of FaSi or MoBr. Children of FaBr or MoSi are parallel cousins.
4. The Coming of Age in Samoa, New York: William Marrow, 1928, p. 98.
5. Emphasis supplied.
6. Emphasis supplied.
7. G. P. Murdock, pp. 284–89.
8. It may be noted that generally, a generation is regarded as consisting of 20 years.
9. The word used for such larger lineage groups in Haryana is Khap. Systematic research is lacking to determine exactly what the Khap is. In the above instance, the boy and the girl were ...
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