单词 | sororate |
释义 | sororaten. Cultural Anthropology. In some kinship systems a custom whereby, on the death of his wife, a man is expected to marry her (unmarried) sister; also occasionally = sororal polygyny n. at sororal adj. 3b; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [noun] > levirate or sororate levirate1725 leviration1815 sororate1910 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > polygyny polygyny1780 polygynia1865 polygynaiky1880 sororate1910 sororal polygyny1952 1910 J. G. Frazer Totemism & Exogamy IV. 140 The other [custom] is the rule which allows or requires a man to marry the younger sisters either of his living or of his deceased wife... The latter custom..has no distinctive name, but on analogy I propose to call it the sororate. 1921 E. Westermarck Hist. Human Marriage (ed. 5) xxxi. 263 The sororate, like the levirate, can be..interpreted as the outcome of existing conditions. 1947 Chapple & Coon Princ. Anthropol. xiii. 311 The sororate occurs when a man marries two or more sisters. 1963 W. N. Stephens Family in Cross-cultural Perspective i. 27 In many primitive societies broken homes are automatically ‘mended’ by means of the sororate and levirate. 1970 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 19 i. 139 The levirate and sororate institutions could perpetuate the inter-kin tie. Derivatives soroˈratic adj. characterized by such a custom. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [adjective] > levirate or sororate leviratical1849 levirate1865 sororatic1952 1952 M. N. Srinivas Relig. & Society among Coorgs of S. India v. 148 As sororatic unions are preferred among the Coorgs, a mother's younger sister steps into the mother's shoes in the event of the mother's death. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1910 |
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