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Name: Gender roles in the system of kinship relationships of the Anglo-Saxon ethnos (based on the material of Old English texts)

Authors: Khvostenko Anna Aleksandrovna

Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: The diversity of gender roles in different cultures and in different epochs testify to the hypothesis that our gender roles are formed by culture. Moreover, gender roles depend not only on the culture but on the historical epoch. The paper considers the gender roles in the relationship system of Anglo-Saxon ethnic groups on the material of Old English texts.

Keywords: gender roles, agnation, cognation, gender functions, consanguinity, inlaw relationship

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