Definition of Cousinage. Meaning of Cousinage. Synonyms of Cousinage

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Definition of Cousinage

Cousinage
Cousinage Cous"in*age (-?j), n. [F. cousinage, OF., also, cosinage. Cf. Cosinage, Cozenage.] Relationship; kinship. [Obs.] --Wyclif.

Meaning of Cousinage from wikipedia

- In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact...
- even insult another without the recipient taking offence. This bond of cousinage is called maasir or kalir in Serer (shorten to kal by the Wolof), kallengooraxu...
- secondly, Count Sieghard X of Burghausen Kilij Arslan II – who claimed blood cousinage with Henry the Lion. Steven Runciman: Geschichte der Kreuzzüge ('A History...
- societies in general, often described in English with terms such as "cousinage" or "joking relationship". In addition to sanankuya relationships that...
- living in Bambara communities, creating formalized relationships called Cousinage. This survives to this day as the Malian cultural institution known as...
- Islam and Christianity. The Ghanaian Dagaaba have traditionally had a Cousinage/Joking relationship with the Frafra (Gurunsi) people. The Dagaaba, before...
- by his own daughter. Serers and Toucouleurs are linked by a bond of "cousinage". This is a tradition common to many ethnic groups of West Africa known...
- government (edict 16). Article 7 institutes the sanankuya (a type of cousinage or joking relationship that is a longstanding West African social tradition)...
- name continued into the 1930 census. Most other lines of this family (cousinage proven by DNA) now use "Slayton" or "Slaton" as name spelling, though...
- HARRISON Cross-cutting Cleavages and Ethnic Voting: An Experimental Study of Cousinage in Mali American Political Science Review, Vol. 104, No. 1, February 2010...