The Role of the Aged in Primitive Society |
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Contents
Research Procedure | 1 |
The Assurance of Food | 20 |
Property Rights | 36 |
Copyright | |
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abandonment able activities aged men aged women Agriculture appear association become believed called ceremony chief child Codified laws coefficients Collection correlations council cultural custom dance death dwelling dying elders Eskimo especially family rights family support father favorable fear Fishing give hand head Herding Hunting important including seniority rights influence judges land legends live magic married Matrilineal descent Matrilineal inheritance Matrilineal succession Matrilocal residence Matripotestal family authority medicine mother natural Numbers old age old men old woman Organized priesthood ownership parents Permanency person position possessed practice present prestige priests primitive property rights Ratio received regarded relatives reported respect rights of aged shamans sharing social societies sometimes son-in-law spirits statistical subjection support of aged traits tribes usually village wife young mates younger youth
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Role of the Aged in Primitive Society |
| Author | Leo William Simmons |
| Contributor | Yale University. Department of Sociology |
| Publisher | Department of Sociology, 1945 |
| Original from | Cornell University |
| Digitized | Jan 12, 2009 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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