phratry 的定义
plural phra·tries.
- a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe.
- a subdivision of a phyle.
更多phratry例句
- A man of the Emu phratry marries a woman of the Kangaroo phratry, and to that phratry her children belong.
- Thus members of either phratry must be found in any casual knot or company of natives.
- Within each phratry there are, again, kinships also known by hereditary names of animals or plants.
- In phratry Kupathin are Ipai (male) and Kumbo (male), while the women bear the feminine forms of these names.
- Where totem and phratry names only exist, a man has merely to ask a woman, "What is your phratry name?"