PROTECTING THE WIDOW AND THE ORPHAN
A NEW TYPE OF AVUNCULAR RELATIONSHIP (AE, 2013, 868)
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https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8657_58_10Keywords:
onomastics, kinship, uncle relationship, « atom of kinship », collateral relativesAbstract
This study aims to show how the recently published inscription of Cabeça Boa, like others found in the Iberian Peninsula and beyond, is evidence which can help us to identify a triad of relatives (nephew, maternal uncle and mother of the nephew), which anthropologists name the « atom of kinship » and is essential to the reproduction of any society. In certain family circumstances, such as the father’s early death, the maternal uncle (auunculus) may be led to play a singular role whose manifestation is easy to trace in funerary epigraphy, although no conclusion should be drawn regarding the supremacy of the maternal branch over the paternal one.
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