Kinship and marriage among the Omaha, 1886-1902 (1).

From: Ethnology | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Ensor, Bradley E. | Copyright information

"Omaha" kinship is a major model for patrilineal kinship and marital exchanges. However, some authors have suggested that kinship rules and unilineal descent are merely theoretical constructs of anthropologists or cultural ideals usually not followed in practice. Given the importance of "Omaha" kinship for theory, this article tests the normative rules for marriage against empirical data on actual marriage behavior among the late-nineteenth-century Omaha tribe of Nebraska using Bur...

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