| 单词 | crow system |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCrow system 2. Crow-type or Crow system, etc.: a type of kinship terminology, typical of societies with matrilineages, in which sisters and female cousins are classified under three terms, one applied to sister and mother's sister's daughter, another to mother's brother's daughter (and brother's daughter), and the third to father's sister's daughter (and her mother and daughter). ΘΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [adjective] > relating to matrilineal system matrilineal1904 matrilinear1910 Crow-type1925 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > kinship system > matrilineal matriliny1906 matrilineality1956 Crow system1968 1925 L. Spier in Univ. Washington Publ. Anthropol. I. ii. 73 II. Crow Type. In this system the father's sister is an ‘aunt’ and her female descendants through females are ‘aunts’! 1949 F. Eggan in M. Fortes Social Struct. 122 They [sc. the Hopi] possess a majority of features associated with the classic Crow type. 1964 F. G. Lounsbury in W. H. Goodenough Explor. Cult. Anthropol. 351 A formal account of the Crow- and Omaha-type kinship terminologies. 1968 Internat. Encycl. Social Sci. VIII. 396 Their kinship systems [i.e., those of ‘the tribes of the Prairie Plains’] were also ‘classificatory’, in that lineal and collateral relatives were merged in the terminology, but they utilized the lineage principle to provide a wide extension to the system. There were two subtypes: (a) the ‘Omaha’ system, associated with patrilineal descent, and (b) the ‘Crow’ system, associated with matrilineal descent. < as lemmas |
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