- mean
phratries were as
large as 1,000
adult males per
phratry or as
small as 140
adult males per
phratry. It is also
likely that
different phratries were...
- upon
common female ancestors.
Clans were
organized into
three distinct phratries identified by
their animal sign: Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf. They first...
-
weakened the gene, or
aristocratic family groups, that had
dominated the
phratries. A deme
functioned to some
degree as a
polis in miniature, and indeed...
- po****tion grew to a
certain point,
families joined into
phratries.
Further growth caused phratries to join into tribes, and then
tribes into a city. In the...
-
having its own
centre and its own chief.
Every tribe had two
exogamic phratries,
termed mon't' and por, and all
members were
considered to be
blood relatives...
- the
evidence suggests that they
alone belonged to the
phratries, and the
division into
phratries must have
covered the
whole citizen body. It is indeed...
- Chinese, Irish, ****anese, Polish, Scottish, Tlingit, and
Somali societies. A
phratry is a
descent group composed of
three or more
clans each of
whose apical...
-
Navajo also had a
system of
matrilineal "clans"
organized further into
phratries (perhaps
influenced by the
western Pueblo). The
notion of a
tribe within...
- In
ancient times the
tribe of Khuza'a was
subdivided into a
number of
phratries (buṭūn): Banū Kalb bin 'Amr Banū Salūl bin 'Amr Banū Ḥabshah bin Salūl...
-
Pyanepsion (mid-October to mid-November), on
which occasion the
various phratries, or clans, of
Attica met to
discuss their affairs. The name is a slightly...
