| 词汇 | affinal |
| 释义 | affinal adjective social science specializeduk /əˈfaɪ.nəl/ us /əˈfaɪ.nəl/ by marriage: 姻亲的 affinal relatives姻亲关系 affinal ties姻亲联系 Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships adulteress as husband and wifeidiom be an itemidiom be shacked upidiom civil marriage have something going with someoneidiom hear wedding bellsidiom hitched honest husband matrimony monogamist monogamous monogamously ménage à trois shack shack up situationship something together Examples of affinalaffinal In this way, much of the otherwise suppressed and deflected hostility between female affinal and kin relations is expressed through reciprocation and non-reciprocation in gham-khadi. This was when bonds of neighbourhood, friendship and affinal ties and so on were finally cut. Nearly one-half of the population lived as extended kin, either consanguineal or affinal, of the head. The intricacies of ethnic identity, affinal relations and political alliances are such that similar assertions can always be made to seem plausible. Accounts from the eighteenth century show such affinal relatives actually living, or at least staying, in the same household. A substantial fraction of the population was made up of affinal kin : 47 per cent of males and 59 per cent of females. At marriage, two individuals acquire affinal kin and serving bowls - as well as the immediate promise of a home, field, and family of their own. They lacked the entire affinal and filial support network. 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. Particularly for those unfortunate women whose natal and affinal homes were on opposite sides of the boundary, the rare visits home to their parents became a difficult and dangerous proposition. Simultaneously, affinal relations are articulated. Let me offer an example that illustrates a household-internal cause, and thereby illuminates some of the tensions that arise with virilocality and the acquisition of affinal kin. It usually refers to consanguineal kin (as a class), but it may be extended to include affinal and ritual kin, as well as all village members. Patrifocal, adult males might have been buried here rather than in the residential area with affinal females and young children. Considerable influence was exercised by affinal relatives. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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