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sororate Anthrop.|sɒˈrɔərət|
[f. L. soror sister + -ate1, after levirate.]
In some kinship systems a custom whereby, on the death of his wife, a man is expected to marry her (unmarried) sister; also occas. = sororal polygyny s.v. sororal a. 3 b; also attrib. Hence soroˈratic a., characterized by such a custom.
1910J. G. Frazer Totemism & Exogamy IV. 140 The other [custom] is the rule which allows or requires a man to marry the younger sisters either of his living or of his deceased wife... The latter custom..has no distinctive name, but on analogy I propose to call it the sororate. 1921E. Westermarck Hist. Human Marriage (ed. 5) xxxi. 263 The sororate, like the levirate, can be..interpreted as the outcome of existing conditions. 1947Chapple & Coon Princ. Anthrop. xiii. 311 The sororate occurs when a man marries two or more sisters. 1952M. N. Srinivas Relig. & Society among Coorgs v. 148 As sororatic unions are preferred among the Coorgs, a mother's younger sister steps into the mother's shoes in the event of the mother's death. 1963W. N. Stephens Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective i. 27 In many primitive societies broken homes are automatically ‘mended’ by means of the sororate and levirate. 1970Internat. & Compar. Law Q. XIX. i. 139 The levirate and sororate institutions could perpetuate the inter-kin tie. |