Failed Family Sagas

The aim of this article is to examine how failed family sagas have defined early Italian/American culture and female literary tradition through Julia Savarese’s The Weak and the Strong (1952) and Marion Benasutti’s No Steady Job for Papa (1966). The idea of failed (female) lineages is articulated in a thematic sense that is overtly expressed in the depiction of both families in the texts. These convey a doomed plot which matches the coarse realities of immigration and the depression, as well as reflects the boundaries represented by the intersecting limitations of embodying racial and gender difference. Particularly, the article focuses on how male lineage is paramount in the novels and define Italian/American culture. In this sense, the analysis also contends that, as the authors themselves also encountered similar limitations, the lost genealogy of these early precursors has equally endangered the Italian/American female literary tradition.

Gender Analysis of Marriage Guardians in the Compilation of Islamic Law

The concept of marriage guardians in Islamic Law Compilation still seems biased and patriarchal, because women do not have the right to marry themselves or others. Articles on guardian of marriage are still less responsive to women's interests. A gender imbalance regarding the concept of marriage guardians is further strengthened by the provisions of marriage guardians in the Islamic Law Compilation which are strictly aimed at men. This research used literature review method based on the Compilation of Islamic Law and gender theory. This study found that, the information about guardian of marriage which is a man’s right from the father's line is actually in line with the pagan Arab culture, including the contribution of Quraish hegemony in interpreting religious propositions. In this regard, Arab societies like Quraish had great respect for a person based on their lineage, so that everyone who was respected would wholeheartedly keep their honor. The lineage in Arabic culture is in the hands of the male lineage, and women are entered into second-class citizens in front of them.

Hak Waris Laki-Laki Perkawinan Nyeburin dalam Hukum Adat Bali di Desa Adat Sawan Kabupaten Gianyar

The kinship system that adheres to the Patrilineal system or better known to adhere to the male lineage system or in Balinese terms is commonly known as following the purus. Purusa will later become an heir and will inherit all the rights and obligations of his parents towards God. A Nyeburin marriage is the opposite if the wife has the status and position as purusa and the man has the status and position as pradana. This study aims to analyze the model of inheritance for boys who marry in Sawan Village, Gianyar Regency and explain the ownership rights to inheritance given by men in nyeburin marriages in Sawan Traditional Village, Gianyar Regency. The method used was empirical legal research, with a statutory and conceptual approach. Sources of data used were primary and secondary legal data. The results showed that the model of giving inheritance for boys who married in Sawan Village, Gianyar Regency was given a kind of gift in the form of dry land which was given to men who were willing to be son-in-law and to marry in order to give the property when the man -the man who agrees and agrees to do the marriage intercourse, then the land becomes the man's full right.

About Seraph’s arrow and St. Michael’s shield. A poem by priest Dominik Zabłocki OP for Countess Teresa Barbara Radziwill Pac on the occasion of her name day

In the second half of the eighteenth century a lot of occasional poems were published in Vilnius. Their authors were often representatives of various orders: the Piarists, the Jesuits, the Basilians, the Dominicans. Name day poems enjoyed great popularity, which was influenced by the intensive development of various forms of social life. Name day poems were part of “home muse” or family poetry. The authors often addressed their works to representatives of the political and official elite of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, who played an important role in the public and political life of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The poems were more often devoted to the representatives of the male lineage due to their social status and functions, although it happened that women, especially representatives of influential families in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, were also the recipients of these poems. The article discusses an occasional work by a priest Dominik Zabłocki, Dominican friar, devoted to Countess Teresa Barbara Pacowa of the Dukes of Radziwills – a lady of the Austrian Order of the Starry Cross. The poem describes her personal merits, the merits of her husband and family, referring to the rich symbolism of the coat of arms of the Pac, the Radziwill and the Zawisza families from which Teresa Pacowa’s mother was descended. This piece of work undoubtedly belongs to the group of texts that were addressed to a wider audience and performed a political and propaganda function.

YHP: Y-chromosome Haplogroup Predictor for predicting male lineages based on Y-STRs

Human Y chromosome reflects the evolutionary process of males. Male lineage tracing by Y chromosome is of great use in evolutionary, forensic, and anthropological studies when male samples exist or especially when the biological sample is a mixture of male and female individuals. Identifying the male lineage based on the specific distribution of Y haplogroups narrows down the investigation scope. Integrating previously published datasets with genotypes of Y chromosome short tandem repeats (Y-STRs) and high-resolution haplogroups (122 haplogroups in total), we developed YHP (Y Haplogroup Predictor), an open-access and userfriendly software package to predict haplogroups, compare the similarity, and conduct mismatch analysis of samples with Y-STR profiles. The software is available at Github (https://github.com/cissy123/YHP-Y-Haplogroup-Predictor-).Author SummaryFamilial searching has been used in forensic, anthropologic, and personalized scenarios. Software packages have been developed to assist in male familial searching, such as predicting Y-SNP haplogroups by Y-STRs. However, these software packages, in general, achieve this goal with a rough resolution. In this study, we developed a software package to conduct high-resolution haplogroup inference to help familial searching and at the same time reduce the cost, since it does not require tiresome Y-SNP sequencing.

The ‘Souverainement Orphelin’ of Abdelkébir Khatibi’s Early Writings

One of Morocco’s most important sociologists, and certainly one of the first following Independence, Abdelkébir Khatibi occupied an unusual place in the new, developing discipline of post-colonial sociology. Both a poet and a novelist, Khatibi was also interested in history, philosophy and cultural theory; and this wide-ranging set of interests served him well when, barely thirty, he became editor of the Bulletin économique et social du Maroc. Here began a literary as well as sociological adventure which, little known in his œuvre, took Khatibi from Marx and Gurvitch to Lukacs and Lucien Goldmann. As well as leading research into sociological topics in Morocco and North Africa such as women’s sexuality, young people’s opinions or radical theories of social explanation, Khatibi began a study of the Moroccan class system in a synthetic analysis stretching back to earliest makhzen periods, using Ibn Khaldun, Marx and Durkheim to account for the açabiyya tradition of male lineage in tribal rulers. It is in this context that Khatibi wrote his Tattooed Memory in 1971, his sociology of the post-colonial self.

Kedudukan Balu Luh di Desa Adat Suter Bangli

The patrilineal descent system, as is also the case in the indigenous Balinese, has the consequence that the heirs in Bali are determined according to the male lineage (purusa). However, it is also possible for women to be appointed as heirs, that is, in the case of the girl being appointed as a sentana rajeg or the status of a girl is changed from predana to purusa status. Based on the background of this research problem formulation as follows: how is the obligation for the manners of Balu Luh in the Suter Bangli Customary Village and how the authority of the manners for the inheritance of her husband. The type of research used is empirical legal research. The results of this research discussion are as follows: Obligations for manners in the village of Suter Bangli, among others, take care of the inheritance of her deceased husband well, behave well, enforce discipline, obey the obligations, carry out obligations, panca yadnya and others, which are then referred to as her husband's legacy properly balu pageh, the widow's right as long as only enjoying it can not sell, give, and give it to others except with the consent of her children and the family of her late husband if her children are still small. This applies to heirlooms and riches (marriage assets), because for heirlooms, a widow does not have any rights, the right is the purusa of the family of her deceased husband, but the widow has the right to enjoy it if the widow is pageh. The authority of the courtesy of her husband's inheritance includes: Maintaining the integrity of the family, not doing things that are not good, so that it can be called a shame. No authority to sell, transfer the assets left by her late husband. May ask for children / sentana, but with the consent of the family of the late husband. May also remarry with the approval of the family of the late husband.

The Uneasy Institution

Chapter 2 addresses the idea of male lineage as a stable, intergenerational source of authority for medieval men. Continuing the argument of the book as a whole, it argues that Chaucer seeks to shake men’s faith in such modes of earthly power, deploying the Wife of Bath to undermine the system of lineage itself. The Wife intrudes into typical models of male heredity, criticizes the linear male temporality upon which lineage depends, and has the hag of her Tale offer a speech against the very mechanisms of male descent and likeness. This chapter also contrasts the Wife of Bath’s Tale to the ballad, the Knight and the Shepherd’s Daughter, arguing that while the scene of rape in each is very similar, the Wife of Bath renders her narrative deliberately less procreative in its orientation. Finally, the chapter argues that Chaucer also has the Wife of Bath attack modes of poetic genealogy, alienating poets from their literary forebears.

Grandparents’ Financial Contributions to Grandchildren in Rural China: The Role of Remittances, Household Structure, and Patrilineal Culture

Objectives This investigation examined predictors of monetary transfers made by grandparents for the benefit of their grandchildren in rural China. Predictors included family factors related to financial supply (remittances received from the parents of grandchildren), household demand (living in a skipped-generation household), and patrilineal culture (targeting sons and grandsons). Method The 2015 wave of the Longitudinal Study of Older Adults in Anhui Province was used to study financial transfers made by 831 grandparents to grandchildren in the families of 1,633 parents. Two-part random-effects regression was used to predict whether a transfer was made and the value of transfers, given that one occurred. Results Grandparents provided higher value transfers to grandchildren whose parents provided greater remittances and with whom they coresided in skipped-generation households. The likelihood of making a transfer fully followed the male lineage, and was greatest to grandson-only families in which parents were first-born sons. Discussion Results show that economic, household, and cultural factors are independently associated with the largesse of grandparents. We conclude that grandparents’ economic contributions to grandchildren in rural China are shaped by family demands in a highly mobile society, intergenerational interdependence, and a persistent patrilineal gender system that reaches to the level of grandchildren.