| 单词 | ghost family |
| 释义 | > as lemmasghost family ghost family n. (among the Atuot, Dinka, and Nuer people of South Sudan) a family resulting from a ghost marriage (ghost marriage n.), in which any children are considered to be the offspring of the deceased husband. [Probably after ghost marriage n., but compare Nuer ciek jooka wife of a ghost and gat jooka child of a ghost] . ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family raised by one parent ghost family1938 single parent (family)1969 1938 E. E. Evans-Pritchard in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft 52 309 We may therefore describe the family that develops out of a ghost-marriage as a ‘ghost-family’ in acknowledgement of the ghostly status of the pater of the children. 1951 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Kinship & Marriage among Nuer iii. 110 The family that develops out of a ghost-marriage may be called a ghost-family in acknowledgement of the ghostly status of the pater of the children. It consists of a ghost, his wife, his children born in the union of marriage, and the kinsman who begat these children and acts as father to them. 2004 Transeuphratène 28 128 The differences between the ghost family and the legal family occur only later, when the sons grow up because they continue the lineage of the ghost. < as lemmas |
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