Article: The Interpretation of Caste.

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Interior Design;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Founded as a fur trading firm in Quebec City 160 years ago, Holt Renfrew Company today spans the east and west coasts of Canada with twelve high-quality specialty department stores. Three of them -- the flagship store on Bloor Street in Toronto and two more in the suburban localities of Yorkdale

Article: Feminists born, feminists bred.
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Dictionary definition: phratry
A Dictionary of Sociology;      421 words ... ... social organization is based on kinship groups through descent in either the male or female line, but these kinship groups are then aggregated according ... In other societies, extended kinship groups include the clan (usually a matrilineal ...

Article: Mauritania: Chapter 2B. Ethnic groups and languages
Countries of the World;      700+ words ... ... African languages. Family and kinship groups were the predominant social units. As elsewhere in Africa, kinship groups were preserved by interaction ... Traditionally, one of the most common kinship groups throughout Mauritania was the ...

Article: Understanding immigrants' initiatives in the new economy: the ...
Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... transnational social spaces--transnational kinship groups, transnational circuits, and transnational ... in the new economy, transnational kinship groups and transnational circuits, such as ... relevant. Examples of how transnational kinship groups (reciprocity) and circuits (exchange ...

Article: Settlement and Society in the Early Bronze Age I and II, Southern ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... spiraling upwards and downwards around kinship groups, is the essential characteristic of ... here in the use of the phrase "around kinship groups." Is this really a meaningful category ... noteworthy that the phrase "around kinship groups" here replaces the phrase "the domestic ...

Article: Iraq: tribal engagement lessons learned.(Essay)
Military Review;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Iraq consist of nested (vice hierarchically organized) kinship groups (see Table 1). There are thousands of clans, hundreds ... tribal sheikhs.) (17) The terms used to describe these kinship groups and the meanings ascribed to them may differ by tribe or ...