Fostering Fealty: A Comparative Analysis of Tribunary Allegiances of Adoptive Kinship.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Parkes, Peter
- Source
- Comparative Studies in Society & History. Oct2003, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p714-782. 42p. 2 Diagrams, 1 Chart.
- Subject
- *KINSHIP
*FAMILIES
- Language
- ISSN
- 0010-4175
Delves into fosterage and milk kinship in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Discussion of allegiance fosterage and adoptive kinship; Analysis of Islamic milk kinship; Comparative exemplars of cliental allegiance fosterage; Transition from cliental to patronal fosterage.