Sibling Terminology and Cross‐Sex Behavior: Data from the Southeastern Nuba Mountains1
- 1 June 1969
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Anthropologist
- Vol. 71 (3) , 482-488
- https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1969.71.3.02a00080
Abstract
Contrary to certain of the assumptions of Nerlove and Romney (1967) on sibling terminology and cross‐sex behavior, the sibling terminology of the Southeastern Nuba manifests a primary sex‐of‐speaker component and is shown to be conjunctive. Other data appear to weigh against their functional hypotheses for the cross‐parallel distinction in sibling terminology but support a general conclusion that there may be different levels of explanation in kinship usage and that attention should be paid to cultural conceptions of cross‐sex relations.Keywords
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