Sororate

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Brant, Charles S.A preliminary study of cross-sexual joking relationships in primitive society
Pans, A.E.M.J.Levirate and sororate and the terminological classification of uncles, aunts, and siblings' children

Associated Hypotheses (2)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Brant, Charles S."The joking relationship tends to obtain between relatives standing in a potential sexual relationship . . . [in] the sororate, i.e., between a man and his wife's sister" (319)
Pans, A.E.M.J.There will be a positive association between sororate and normal bifurcate merging terminology or step-bifurcate collateral terminology for aunts and siblings’ children (woman speaking) (349-50).

Associated OCMs

  1. secondary marriages
  2. kinship terminology