释义 |
patri-clan|ˈpætrɪklæn| [f. patri- + clan n.] A patrilineal kin group or clan; also, occas., the clan of the father.
1937W. E. Lawrence in G. P. Murdock Stud. Sci. of Society 319 ‘Patri-clan’ and ‘matri-clan’, denoting small exogamous kin-groups with patrilineal and matrilineal descent respectively, are suggested to eliminate monotonous repetition of adjectives. 1957Contrib. Indian Sociol. I. 52 Incidentally, ‘patri-clan’ is not taken here in the sense of ‘patrilineal clan’, but of the father's clan. 1959G. D. Mitchell Sociol. iv. 69 The Tallensi seem to make a distinction between offences committed by a man with a member of the same patri-clan, such as with a paternal aunt, daughter, or sister,..and offences committed by a man with the wife of a member of the same patri-clan, such as the wife of a father, brother, or son. 1975G. A. Collier Fields in Tzotzil iii. 61 The second, not so widely accepted by scholars, is that Mayah social structure was and is characterized by patrilocal extended families, patrilineages, and, in some cases, fully developed patri-clans. 1978Language LIV. 214 It seems likely that vocabulary replacement and differentiation relate to the development of the lexical encoding or indexing of other sociolinguistic variables, e.g. patri-clan affiliation. |