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phratry
Word definitions for phratry in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phratry \Phra"try\, n.; pl. Phratries . [Gr. ?, ?.] (Gr. Antiq.) A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context anthropology dated English) A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identity but considered to be a single unit.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family , family line , folk , kinfolk , kinsfolk , sept ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In ancient Greece , a phratry ( phratria , )ατρία, "brotherhood", "kinfolk", derived from φρατήρ meaning "brother") was a social division of the Greek tribe ( phyle ). The nature of these phratries is, in the words of one historian, "the darkest problem ...
Usage examples of phratry.
Other tribes are composed of phratries, and each subtribe or phratry comprises a number of gentes.
Any man can win a name and rank in the section, gens, phratry, tribe, or nation by bravery in war or by generosity in the bestowal of presents and the frequent giving of feasts.
Dakota the phratry was never a permanent organization, but it was resorted to on special occasions and for various purposes, such as war or the buffalo hunt.
There is no doubt, however, that in the earlier villages each gens, and where practicable, the whole of the phratry, built their houses together.
There are very few representatives of this phratry existing now, and very little tradition extant concerning its early history.
Water or Rain phratry proper, but allied to them are the two following phratries, who also came to this region with the Water phratry.
Horn House is so called because tradition connects this village with some of the people of the Horn phratry of the Hopituh or Tusayan.
So the members of each phratry have their own store of traditions, relating to the wanderings of their own ancestors, which differ from those of other clans, and refer to villages successively built and occupied by them.
The four generations, including the original pairs, formed phratries, which have no names.
Among the Teton many groups which were originally sections have become gentes, for the marriage laws do not affect the original phratries, gentes, and subgentes.
Iowa camping circle was divided into two half-circles, occupied by two phratries of four gentes each.
At times tribes split up and separate, and again phratries or distant groups meet and band together.
The Hopituh certainly marry within phratries, and occasionally with the same gens.
The tribe to-day seems to be made up of a collection or a confederacy of many enfeebled remnants of independent phratries and groups once more numerous and powerful.
This is rendered the more probable by the fact that the Kansa have grouped their gentes in seven phratries, just the number of the degrees in the society.