Mother's Brother (role)

Associated Documents (1)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Sweetser, Dorrian AppleOn the incompatibility of duty and affection: a note on the role of the mother's brother

Associated Hypotheses (2)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Sweetser, Dorrian Apple"[In patrilocal societies, and also in matrilocal societies,] the proportion of societies with a distinctive role for the mother's brother . . . increase[d] as the lineal-emphasis scale scores increased . . ." (1012)
Sweetser, Dorrian Apple"[In societies where] jural authority [is] in the hands of the father or his lineage . . . mother's brother [will have] an unequivocally male-mother role [indulgent]" [This hypothesis is taken from Homans and Schneider] (1010)

Associated OCMs

  1. kin relationships