单词 | class marriage |
释义 | > as lemmasclass marriage class marriage n. Cultural Anthropology the strict system of exogamy practised by Australian Aboriginal people, in which a member of one class may only marry into certain other classes. ΚΠ 1880 E. B. Tylor in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 9 354 The class marriage system of Australia, under which a man of a particular class may only take a wife of a particular class, has long been well known. 1883 Science 2 807/2 Mr. Bonney describes their [sc. aborigines of the River Darling's] parturition customs, systematic infanticide, child-rearing, initiation of youth, class-marriage, courtesy, charms, sucking-cure, diseases, blood-cure, burials and mourning. 2004 D. McKnight Going Whiteman's Way vi. 97 There are many reports of people being severely punished and even killed because they infringed the class marriage Laws. < as lemmas |
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