... of the Deaf. The genealogy of the Henniker Deaf enclave is described; the enclave contrasts in genetic makeup, marriage practices, sign language use and cultural mores with the large Deaf community on Martha's Vineyard. American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb Brown Thomas Gallaudet Thomas Hopkins Henniker N...

... in Henniker and on the Vineyard. It hypothesizes that the differences between these communities in language barriers and marriage practices are due to differences in genetic transmission of the Deaf trait—recessive (Vineyard) vs. dominant (Henniker)—and those differences give rise, in turn, to differences...

... Delta region. Comparing the highly innovative performances in the Hakka and Dan communities with those of the more settled Punti farmers, it examines the finer meanings of the positioning of women and marriage practices in the region in the late imperial and early Republican periods. buluojia Liugu...

...This chapter examines the way the Yanomami manipulate their kinship and marriage system. Alès demonstrates that the Yanomami do not use only genealogical relationships for the categorization of marriage practices, but rather select from a number of strategies in response to a set of structural...

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... anthropology against Discrimination and antidiscrimination ideology Israelita vs israelense Prejudice Armenians Branqueamento embranquecimento whitening Cochin India Culture Immigration to Brazil India Brazil compared with Mandelbaum David Foodways Marriage practices Ethnic symbols Race relations...

... marriage practices neo-nomadic military monarch Qadan invasion Beginning with the Mongol era in the late thirteenth century, the royal hunt empowered kings, allowing them to legitimise their authority over nonscholars and Mongol imperial personnel through a Northeast Asian cultural practice that many...

...This chapter provides an overview and preliminary analysis of the marriage practices of the ruling elite in the aristocratic society of the Spring and Autumn period (770–453 b.c.). Departing from previous Western-language investigations that frequently refer to classical ritual texts...