- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
- her. At
Athens there is the
temple of
Athena Phratria, as
patron of a
phratry, in the
Ancient Agora of Athens. Athena's
epithet Pallas – her most renowned...
-
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...
- 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...
-
differentiated exogamous phratries. They
speak an
Eastern Toucan language, as well as the
languages of
exogamous ethnic groups or
phratries,
which form part of...
- the
Thessalian festival of Peloria.
Phratrios (Φράτριος), as
patron of a
phratry Philios (Φιλιος; "of Friendship") or
Latinized Philius Phyxios (Φυξιος;...
