Alternative Social Structures and Foster Relations in the Hindu Kush: Milk Kinship Allegiance in....
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Parkes, Peter
- Source
- Comparative Studies in Society & History. Jan2001, Vol. 43 Issue 1, p4. 33p. 6 Diagrams, 1 Map.
- Subject
- *KINSHIP
*FICTIVE kinship
*SOCIAL structure
*TRIBAL government
- Language
- ISSN
- 0010-4175
Presents a comparative elaboration to the pioneering analysis on fictive kinship. Evaluation of structurally similar institutions of fosterage; Analogies of fosterage ties with kumstvo godparenthood; Issues on interdomestic allegiance and tributary governance.