Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

parentescos por brincadeira

English translation:

joking relationships

Added to glossary by Todd Field
Sep 24, 2008 17:06
15 yrs ago
Portuguese term

parentescos por brincadeira

Portuguese to English Social Sciences Anthropology
Nota adicional sobre os parentescos por brincadeira.
Título do capítulo 5 do livro Estrutura e função na sociedade primitiva (Structure and function in primitive society) de Radcliffe-Brown. - É a bibliografia de conteúdo de curso de Antropologia/itemizado. Não há contexto textual, mas a idéia é casamento em sociedades africanas (África do Sul). Encontrei o título do livro, mas não o do capítulo.
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joking relationships

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joking relationship (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joking_relationship): A joking relationship is a term applied by anthropologists to the institutionalised form of interaction between certain pairs of people in some societies. Analysed by British social anthropologist Alfred Radcliffe-Brown in 1940, it describes a kind of ritualised banter that takes place, for example between a man and his maternal mother-in-law in some South African tribal societies.
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joking relationships

"A joking relationship is a term applied by anthropologists to the institutionalised form of interaction between certain pairs of people in some societies. Analysed by British social anthropologist Alfred Radcliffe-Brown in 1940[1], it describes a kind of ritualised banter that takes place, for example between a man and his maternal mother-in-law in some South African tribal societies."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joking_relationship
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