This practice is held to be more important than descent for creating kinship systems in Claude LÃ©vi-Strauss's alliance theory.
This practice is less common on the west side of a division that stretches from Trieste to St.Â Petersburg, the Hajnal ("HYE-nal") line. Kathleen Gough attempted to expand the definition of this practice to include the Nayar ("NYE-ur") people's form of it, in which pre-pubescent girls participate in the tāli-tying ritual. The "walking" form of this practice, which consists of night visits, is practiced exclusively by the Mosuo people of China. This practice can have residence patterns such as ambilocal and bilocal. E.Â E. (*) Evans-Pritchard studied a form of this practice among the Nuer in which a dead man's brother acts as a stand-in, its "ghost" variety. This practice is held to be more important than descent for creating kinship systems in Claude LÃ©vi-Strauss's alliance theory. For 10 points, what practice can be polygynous or polyandrous if more than two people are involved?
This practice is less common on the west side of a division that stretches from Trieste to St.
marriage [or weddings; or nuptiality; or equivalents of having children until "definition" is read; prompt on unions]