Kohopoho
Small stories from a wide world

Topic

kinship

Every Kohopoho article tagged kinship — 2 pieces across 2 sections.

Festivals & Ritual

Weddings: the negotiation, the display and the transfer

Wedding ceremonies across the world contain the same handful of elements because they are solving the same handful of problems, most of which are about property and kinship rather than romance.

Anahera Wetere··3 min read

Language & Words

What a name tells you, and who gets to give one

Naming systems encode kinship, geography, occupation and religion, and the modern assumption that everyone has a fixed first name and a fixed surname is unusual rather than natural.

Lena Farkas··4 min read