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Parents and children, 252 -254, 318 n;
parental blessing (radhi ), 69 , 318 n;
relations between, 65 -69, 127 -128, 326 n;
relations between adoptive, 320 n.
See also Kinship; Men; Women
Parsons, T., 142 , 155 , 282 , 283 , 307 , 314 n
Pate Island, 29
Patrilinear descent lines:
foreigners belong to wives, 32 ;
general ignorance of membership in, 64 ;
partial base for tribes, 31 -32, 53 -54;
ritual functions of, 317 n
Patterns of culture:
common element, 239 , 301 -303;
defined, 210 -211;
extrinsic organization of medical, 235 -241;
influences of on those not sharing, 211 , 224 ;
intrinsic organization of balance pattern, 211 -212;
processes based on, 240 -241.
See also Cultural organization; Unshared culture
Pelto, J. and G. Pelto, 64 , 125
Phatic communion, 137 -138
Piers, G. and M. Singer, 179 , 288
Pitt-Rivers, J., 307
Poetry, Swahili, 29 -30
Political offices:
during colonial period, 321 n;
sheikh and Wazee , 32 ;
Politics of nuclear family, 243 -244, 318 n
Pollnac, R., 125
Poole, Fitz, xiii
See also History of Swahili
Pouwells, R., 30 , 33 , 37 , 64 , 315 n
Predictability:
different basis in simplex and multiplex relationships, 273 ;
incomplete sharing and, 142 -144, 191 ;
necessary but not sufficient for relationships, 322 n;
See also Expectations; Interaction; Unshared culture
Prins, A., 29 , 52 , 54 , 57 , 314 n, 315 n
Procedural understandings, 284
Proverbs, ix , xi , 41 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 69 , 77 , 124 , 125 , 145 , 157 , 158 , 160 , 165 , 166 , 168 , 177 , 183 -184, 185 , 209 , 222 , 237 , 242 , 248 , 311 ;