Obviously Sonia being an affinal kin does not share the same feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why are South Indians so smart?] Reference

The second innovation was more dramatic and stemmed from an affinal connection dating back to Elena's adolescence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Indeed, a beneficial aspect of Huang's ascendency may have been to prevent affinal families from gaining influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

Under the Han, this pattern would have led to a dominant position at court for one or another of the affinal families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

Throughout his official career, Liu struggled against the undue influence at court of palace women and affinal families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

Emperor Guangwu was very much aware of the threat that affinal families could pose to the position of the Lius on the throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

Albertina and Rosa were strangers to one another until the LC assigned them to neighboring plots, and they shared no blood or affinal kinship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

These changes were to contribute significantly to factional struggles among eunuchs, affinal relatives, and officials and would result in the dynasty's ruin. 74.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

Kin networks, endogamy, and repeated affinal marriages were evident by the second generation, establishing patterns that persisted throughout the eighteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference

Scribe's Records, covering affinal families, deals with palace women in rather straightforward fashion, chronicling their rise and fall largely without comment or insight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

Ironically, Wang's actions seem to have been motivated not simply by a desire to exact revenge but also by a clear understanding of the threat that affinal relatives posed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

The historian's encomium that closes the two fascicles on the affinal families takes as its theme the uncertainty of wealth and honor gained through having a daughter achieve imperial favor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

The settlers 'ability to make and sustain disparate claims depended on social relationships, so their decisions about when and where to claim land were predicated on both practical and affinal considerations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference

Wu and Yuan onward. 65 Although Fan notes that Emperors Guangwu and Ming exercised restraint and put into place regulations to limit the influence of women and affinal families, it is clear that he believes the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

Liu Shan's closest adviser for a decade following the death of Liu Bei, and because the younger Liu was married to Zhang Fei's daughters, the problems with affinal families experienced by the Han did not arise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

She had married in the tiko of her birth; there were few women in Facazisse with whom she could not claim kinship; and she was farming land she had obtained either from her husband's relatives or from the LC as an affinal owner of the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

They differ from the earlier works, however, in that their purpose and the criteria for inclusion are unambiguously stated. 64 These fascicles were explicitly written to caution the emperor on the proper roles of palace women and affinal families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

He knew well the difficulties an affinal family faced in carrying its dominance across generations, for had his aunt not lived as long as she did and been willing to bring him back, he might well have remained in the wilderness to which the Dings and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

Emphasizing continuity rather than change, women's life-storytelling reveals their deep involvement in extensive kin-based social networks (consanguineal, affinal, fictive), but places marriage and uterine ties consistently in the narrative foreground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Page view page image: extraordinary woman whose influence extended through the reign of four emperors, but to hold up an example of how an empress and affinal relatives ought to behave when blessed with imperial favor and the position and wealth that flow from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

This ensured that even if the primary wife failed to produce an heir or was for some reason divorced, there would be an heir from the lineage of the principal bride or from a related lineage, thereby preserving the affinal relationships established by the marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

The section on affinal families in the Han History incorporates much of the material found in The Grand Scribe's Records for the reigns they both cover, though the opening paragraph of the former provides more institutional history on the palace women of the Han than does The.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

In these cases, women had been able to exercise some degree of agency in determining where and/or next to whom they established field borders, with the result that they were farming among birth, affinal or fictive kin and construed their right to this land in collective rather than individual terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Cultivating the soil together in turn encouragedindeed, compelledwomen to deepen and formalize their interconnectedness by cultivating vuxaka (kinship) not only within existing networks of patrilineal and affinal relatives but, perhaps more importantly, among non-related female neighbors and friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Bestowing her name on the childcreating a namesakeestablished an enduring bond that complemented or stood in place of ties of blood or affinal kinship, since a midwife might be a female relative (usually an affine), a nsungukati 80 from a neighboring homestead, or a female member of the staff of a mission or state hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Guangwu, for example, reduced the number of ranks of palace women and greatly diminished the incomes given them, and Emperor Ming adopted regulations that curtailed the scope of action of palace women and affinal families. 67 Fan holds up Empress Ma, daughter of the illustrious general Ma Yuan, as an example of how an empress ought to behave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

Although there were no formal kinship ties between N'waXidyula and the women of the Muzimba family with whom Cufassane remembers her grandmother making pots in Macaene, one of these women eventually became part of Cufassane's own affinal kinship network, because she was a kokwana (grandmother) to a future nyatihomu (sister-in-law) of Cufassane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

This last label was consistent with the habit, in casual conversation, of calling a married woman (who formally keeps her own xivongo) by her husband's family name, a gesture of respect acknowledging her fulfillment of the social obligation to marry and the transfer of her place-identity from birth to affinal homestead according to the rules of virilocal marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Although this eliminated the danger of affinal families coming to dominate the government, it did not prevent a consort from being able to manipulate an emperor for her own ends, as the case of Empress Zhen demonstrates. 69 But whether the palace women might distract a ruler from the affairs of state was more a function of the inclinations and will of the ruler than of the women themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

Since according to the norms of virilocal marriage, no married adult woman lives in the muti of her father's family (and indeed might live a long distance from her natal home), the creation of a namesake bond with a younger woman presents a way to strengthen existing ties of blood or affinal kinship, and to foster a lifelong relationship of mutual affection and assistance that will, necessarily, stretch across geographic space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

A legacy of usurpation of authority by empresses and affinal relatives that was to bedevil China into the present century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference