| 单词 | levirate |
| 例句 | Practices such as the levirate, in which a young male marries his elder brother’s widow, were used widely by Inner Asian Steppe peoples and adopted by a number of early Korean ruling families. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The new regulations prohibited people from marrying their first and second cousins and banned the practice of levirate marriage, in which a widow must marry her dead husband’s brother. How the early Christian church gave birth to today’s WEIRD Europeans 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Without resort to that tribunal, the religionist could not discriminate between the sanction of the sixth commandment and the law of the levirate, which he has cancelled. Rationalism The nearest resemblance to the levirate in Greece is the occasional custom at Sparta, mentioned already, of a wife being “commissioned” to bear children by another man into the family of her husband. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay There is absolutely no trace of a levirate system by which the nearest male kinsman must marry his deceased brother's widow. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Consequently we cannot, as has already been the case with the so-called levirate, assign the practice definitely either to matripotestal or patripotestal customs, for father's and mother's authority are alike overruled. Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia The Mosaic code had consecrated this patriarchal theory by a strange institution, the levirate law. The Life of Jesus Among these customs are infant marriage, infant betrothal, capture, purchase, marrying whole families of sisters, and the levirate. Primitive Love and Love-Stories The levirate, or marriage with deceased husband's brother, seems to have had no place in Greek family law. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay The object of the book has been supposed by some to be to commend the so-called levirate marriage. Introduction to the Old Testament He regards this rather unfortunately named custom of the levirate as having its root in group marriage. Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia In the family marriage is sacred, and traces of polyandry and of the levirate, surviving as late as the epic poems, were regarded as things that need to be explained away. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 As for the levirate, that is another very wide-spread custom which shows an utter disregard of woman's preference and choice. Primitive Love and Love-Stories But this exists in Manu, side by side with the above-mentioned custom of levirate proper. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay No arguments for the prior existence of group marriage can be founded on the levirate, any more than an argument for primitive communism can be founded on other laws of inheritance. Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia We are therefore reduced to the levirate as a proof of the former existence of group marriage. Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia The levirate prevails, or has prevailed, among a great number of races, from the lowest to those considerably advanced. Primitive Love and Love-Stories |
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