10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEVIRATIC»
Discover the use of
leviratic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
leviratic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia
Here the distinction between leviratic and other unions is also important. Upper-
caste widows, even when allowed to remarry in principle cannot exercise a free
choice over whether or not to do so and whom to marry. A widow may, for
instance ...
2
Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
Let us take Needham's examples, sticking also to his own accounts of the
meaning of the relevant notions: 'Leviratic marriage, in which a man marries a
deceased brother's widow and raises descendants in his brother's name.' This is
the ...
3
Widows in African Societies: Choices and Constraints
know what the content of their leviratic relations might be, since according to Luo
custom a woman's sexual life terminates with the onset of menopause. The
custom was reported by several married women I knew. Paul Mboya, a prominent
...
4
Law, Custom and Property Rights Among the AMA/Nyiman of the ...
leviratic. marriage-widow. inheritance. The levirate marriage or widow
inheritance as some would call it, is a firmly established institution among the
Ama/Nyimarj. After a man dies, his widow, known as kér koré, remains unmarried
for at least a ...
5
Tudies In Honour Of Prof. G.S. Ghurye
(f) The castes of Lodhas, Minas and Chamars practise leviratic unions. The Minas
and Chamars have both senior and junior leviratic Unions. Fission of households
of brothers under this custom, leads to fusion when one brother dies. Such a ...
They will pay a good bride price, even for a leviratic union, to ease her decision
and increase her family's pressure on her. Women of her dead husband's family
will visit the widow and as friends entice her to remain. If she has children past ...
7
Religion and African Civil Wars
There is no leviratic marriage any more. Christians have given this up. So, we,
widows, don't have children anymore.' Because Nuer do not equate the death of
the husband with the termination of the marriage, Nuer Christian widows remain
in ...
8
A Cultural History of Jewish Dress
A man wanting legal exemption from his leviratic duty stated his intention before
the city elders. The widow then publicly removed his shoe, spat in his face, and
proclaimed: “So shall be done to the man who will not build his brother's house.
9
Kaleidoscope Catechesis: Missionary Catechesis in Africa, ...
Why indeed should people (especially widows and orphans within a leviratic
system) be brutalized with the undignified choice between baptism and wives
within a social and cultural context where the levirate is the normative way for the
...
10
The Family Estate in Africa: Studies in the Role of Property ...
Beyond this, a leviratic husband finds it very hard to establish any sort of control
over the sons who were already married. Thus the younger sons can usually
expect no readjustment of holdings when the final disposition of property is made
for ...
Robert F. Gray, P.H. Gulliver, 2013
