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AGNATES. In the sense of the Roman law were those whose propinquity was
connected by males only; in the relation of cognates, one or more females
were interposed.
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After this, the agnate can be cannibalized to
provide spare body parts for the sponsor. Exogamous marriage was a means of
creating or sealing between families new and hitherto little studied
relationships, apparently close and strong to the point that in-laws
were not seldom preferred to agnates by testators without direct issue;
dowries, which inflated during the century, were protected by
legislators, widows were encouraged not to remarry and often granted
guardianship of children. In her essay on "Contemporary Jazz
and its Agnates," the author synthesizes and simplifies some
complex developments so that social influences and their impact on the
musicians who created the music of the 1950s through the present may be
readily assimilated. |
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