THE ISSUE OF DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE CLASSES IN THE SOUTHERN SELKUP KINSHIP SYSTEM

Shakhovtsov Kirill Gennadyevich

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The article provides a critical analysis of G. I. Pelikh’s hypothesis about the presence of marriage classes, as well as circular marital pattern based on them, in the southern Selkup kinship system. It is then demonstrated, that it is not possible to construct such a class using only available published lists of the Selkup kinship terms. The fi nal suggestion is to revise the hypothesis completely.

Keywords: southern Selkup, kinship systems, kinship terminology, marriage classes

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Issue: 1, 2012

Pages: 144 — 148

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