Levirate

Associated Documents (3)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Brant, Charles S.A preliminary study of cross-sexual joking relationships in primitive society
Pans, A.E.M.J.Levirate and sororate and the terminological classification of uncles, aunts, and siblings' children
Ackerman, CharlesAffiliations: Structural Determinants of Differential Divorce Rates

Associated Hypotheses (3)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Brant, Charles S."The joking relationship tends to obtain between relatives standing in a potential sexual relationship . . . [in] the levirate, i.e., between a man and his brother's wife" (319)
Pans, A.E.M.J.There will be a positive association between levirate and normal bifurcate merging terminology or step-bifurcate collateral terminology for uncles and siblings’ children (man speaking) (348-9).
Ackerman, CharlesThe levirate, which completely severs the wife from her prior affiliations and incorporates her into her husband's affiliations, should be a sufficient condition, in societies practicing it, to produce a low divorce rate (475)

Associated OCMs

  1. secondary marriages
  2. kinship terminology