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Meanings of phratry in inglés
Usage of phratry in inglés
1
The forces of each phratry went out to war as separate divisions.
2
Unlike the Grecian phratry and the Roman curia, it had no official head.
3
But among the Euahlayi the phratry names mean 'light blood' and 'dark blood.'
4
The phratry among the Iroquois was partly for social and partly for religious objects.
5
Associated with these class names are the following phratry names:
6
A child belongs to the same phratry as its mother.
7
Among the Iroquois the phratry was apparent chiefly in religious matters, and in social games.
8
In all alike the gens, phratry and tribe were the first three stages of organization.
9
Each phratry has the right to certain religious ceremonies and the preparation of certain medicines.
10
The same arrangements exist among tribes which derive phratry and totem names through the father.
11
The Mexican phratry was largely concerned with military matters.
12
Each of these larger groups is called a phratry.
13
The first phratry is called "Divided People," and contains four gentes.
14
Definitions: tribe, sub-tribe, local group, phratry, class, totem kin.
15
With the gens tribe and confederacy in existence the presence of the phratry was substantially assured.
16
It was the basis of the phratry, of the tribe, and of the confederacy of tribes.
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