Re: kinship terms (Henaudute)

From: "Cheng Zhong Su" <suchengzhong@...>
> In the following list I wonder why just 'dal' 'rhoph'
> but no younger sister and older sister? And both dal
> and rhoph's wife are atra? There would be different
> with brother's children and wife's brother's children.
That's right, your wife's "pekh-" aren't your "pekh-"!

In fact, technically they're not even her "pekh-" anymore after she becomes your
wife, although she'll probably remember them that way.

You see, what "family" is depends on your culture.  In this early Hena culture a
woman leaves her family to join her husband's.  The family she grew up in no
longer has claim of relation to her.  ISTR she takes on the same 'slot' as her
husband (her father-in-law is 'deethne', her older brother-in-law is 'dal',
etc.), and if her husband dies she might just become another aunt in the
household, or she might marry or be married off into another house.

(Yes, this isn't an ideal culture from our viewpoint--this is a culture just
coming out of prehistory, theoretically parallel to.. um... was it about 4000
BC? before the invention of modern gender relations.)

> Further more cousin's children from father's side
> would be different with cousin's children from
> mother's side.


    *Muke!

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