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.
