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mother's brother Anthropol.
The maternal uncle, usu. with reference to his importance in kinship affairs and social customs. Also attrib.
1871L. H. Morgan in Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl. No. 218 12 My father's brothers and my mother's brothers, in English, are generalized into one class, and the term uncle is employed... The relationships to Ego of the two classes of persons are equal in their degree of nearness, but not of the same kind; wherefore, the Roman method is preferable, which employed patruus to express the former, and avunculus to indicate the latter. Ibid. 13 In Seneca-Iroquois, for example, my father's brother is my father... My mother's brother, on the contrary, is my uncle. 1934R. H. Lowie Cultural Anthropol. xiii. 251 A preponderant position of the mother's brother may occur even without matrilocal residence and is termed ‘avunculate’. 1949E. E. Evans-Pritchard in M. Fortes Social Structure 95 It is worse with a mother's brother's daughter than with a father's brother's daughter. 1951R. Firth Elem. Social Organization ii. 48 Reference has been made..to the importance of the mother's brother relationship in Oceanic communities. 1972J. S. La Fontaine Interpretation of Ritual 166 While all non-agnatic kin ceremonially recognize a girl's maturity, the primary ritual figure, to the exclusion of her father or senior agnates, is her mother's brother. |