Examples of headship

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Table 1 considers the reasons for transfer of headship, broken down according to the socio-economic status of the household.
Table 7 indicates the relationship between old and new household heads and the reasons for the transfer of the headship of the household.
The other reason for change of headship is referred to in the registers as kakeochi (' absconding ').
Foot boundaries are indicated by square brackets, and headship by accent marks.
As studies on the practice of succession in headship have shown, not all successors were the biological children of the former proprietors.
As such, this form of succession in headship should not be referred to in terms of inheritance.
In order to clarify the patterns, we focus in this case on headship successions following upon the death or retirement of the previous head.
Instances of female headship were more likely to result in such failures.
In other words, we can determine a change of headship by noting a change in the name of the household head.
The question of headship is a difficult one to investigate using soul revisions.
The number quadruples if multiple stems are accepted - with two or more married sons or daughters under the headship of a father.
However, when the headship was passed to a female, it was much more likely to be an unexpected succession.
The chair is confused with the administrative headship of a department which is called the chairmanship.
With headship succession, however, the transfer is not of the assets, but of the responsibility to manage those assets.
A person could not unilaterally decide to will headship and his assets to anyone he wanted without gaining the signed agreement of family and kin.
While she did not have any ownership rights to her husband's inherited family land, she could retain the headship if her children were young.
There are frequent mentions of an intention for the older generation to retain headship until the death of the husband.
Thus, childless couples were common, but males without children rarely attained headship.
Conventional studies of household and family scarcely consider the dynamics of gender within households, except for headship.
Even more interesting is that a widow might maintain this effective headship for her son even after another adult male appeared in the household.
The family might have no sons and the eldest son might not be the most capable person to take over headship.
The sardar was sometimes discovered among these roving bands to be the village headman, and in some cases, headship was assigned by the negotiators.
As long as the headship was maintained, the head retained his title no matter where he might have been living at the time of registration.
Fragmentary evidence linking female-headship to uncleanliness and the use of opiates is also considered.
Headship patterns offer a second clue to the formation of multigenerational families.
The powerful role of the landlords in the region was limited to formal supervision where the transfer of a headship was concerned.
The frequency of headship transmission created good opportunities for landless people to become land-owners.
The estate household listings, which provide higher-quality data on female headship, suggest even more startling figures.
Moreover, when headship passed to an heiress, it usually passed to her husband.
The differences between headship succession and inheritance are important to understanding the process that is the focus of this study.
Thus, to the extent that headship is synonymous with source of percolation, we might define coordinate constituents as co-heads.
Zwicky claims that percolation is the main feature of headship.
Moreover, if the eldest son was deceased, the headship passed to the eldest surviving son of the deceased elder son.
However equal the ownership had been, the eldest son was now seen as the natural successor to the headship.
In some ways, therefore, headship could be a carry-over from communal land organization.
During his headship, 100% of the graduates went on to university.
Only a few select kin of a current head could expect ever to acquire headship by inheritance.
Women also became heirs but historians have advanced two contrasting claims about the significance of household headship by females.
There was further variation in the way headship of these households was transmitted.
During the period 1720-1870, 1,021 cases of headship transfer can be observed.
The evidence on headship and on the age pattern of co-residence indicates that in most cases the children were remaining in their parental household.
Since headship often passed to the son-in-law on the death of his spouse's father, then all the previous consanguineal kin became affinal.
Even in cases where a father had died the widow did not always turn the headship over to her son.
However, in one case the head of household actually abandoned his wife and four children when he left and headship passed to his infant son.
In some cases the farm was divided for the life of the parents and each generation retained the headship on its half.
How can we explain such a significant increase in female headship in such a short period of time ?
However, headship could not be split and shared between several people and was therefore impartible.
Beginning in the early eighteenth century, stepsons also feature as headship successors.
I have omitted a candidate with two main stresses : this would likely be ruled out by an independent constraint against joint headship.
An alternative pathway for elderly women was the assumption of headship upon widowhood in a household where single children were present.
Moreover, untimely death might leave the family unprepared with no appropriate person capable of taking over the headship duties, forcing the family to settle for whoever was available.
In joint-family household systems, where households are complex and marriage occurs early, the age at which headship is attained is usually higher than in simple-family household systems.
In this study we attempt to examine the link between the demographic context and family strategy, as illustrated by the pattern of succession to the headship of the household.
In other words, women came to head a household only when appropriate male candidates were not available within the household or when the transfer of headship was unexpected.
Headship, however, was never shared jointly.
They retained both headships in 2012.
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