 | Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, William Forsell Kirby - 1897 - 814 pages
...responsible male relative is the mother's elder brother. From him must leave to marry be obtained for either girl, or boy ; to him and the mother must the...his own children, and at his death, after his own brothers by the same mother, they become his heirs. Marriage among the Igalwa and M'pongwe is not direct... | |
 | Mary Henrietta Kingsley - 1897 - 812 pages
...responsible male relative is the mother's elder brother. From him must leave to marry be obtained for either girl, or boy ; to him and the mother must the...his own children, and at his death, after his own brothers by the same mother, they become his heirs. Marriage among the Igalwa and M'pongwe is not direct... | |
 | Edwin Sidney Hartland - 1909 - 348 pages
...says Miss Kingsley, " is the mother's eldest brother. From him must leave to marry be obtained for either girl or boy ; to him and the mother must the...his own children, and at his death, after his own brothers by the same mother, they become his heirs." 2 Two kinds of marriage are known among the Bambala.... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1909 - 900 pages
...responsible male relative is the mother's older brother. From him must leave to marry be obtained for either girl or boy; to him and the mother must the...his own children, and at his death, after his own brothers by the same mother, they become his heirs.* These details are all consistent with the mother-family... | |
 | American Sociological Association - 1909 - 236 pages
...itself. Miss Kingsley, speaking of the negroes of West Africa, describes societal details as follows: the mother must the present be taken which is exacted...his own children, and at his death, after his own brothers by the same mother, they become his heirs.' These details are all consistent with the mother-family... | |
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The really responsible male relative is the mother's older brother. From him must leave to marry be obtained for either girl or boy; to him and the mother must the present be taken which is exacted on the marriage of a girl, and should the mother die,... 