Individuals acquired use rights to particular plots through their kin connections, acknowledging the rights of the group by periodic offerings of first fruits to the kin group's leader.
I'll always live with this fractured kith-and-kin connection, this forever incomplete separation.
And Ms. Williams has written her own book, "A Rare Titanic Family," about her kin's connection to the event.
With the preponderance of economic and political power closely held by Colonel Qaddafi and his kin, tribal connections became increasingly critical to social advancement as well — one reason corruption has been endemic to the Libyan system, scholars say.
By attending to the needs of parents and children, All Our Kin makes a connection missed by most welfare-to-work efforts, experts said.
Dutch and English were close kin once.
And the Gordon sisters' mother, Barbara, also a lawyer, became a corporate officer of PRF. Gordon reached out beyond kin as well, tapping every connection she could think of.
If you give birth…and you can have your mother beside you, you will feel a little bit more comfortable…" (Latifa, mother of two) Separation from these supportive relationships was understood as a source of tension, and many women described grief and loss associated with their diluted connection to female kin.
Being younger, these women may not have had the time to build up the social connections beyond husbands' kin, which may be key to absorbing AIDS-related shocks.
Letters explaining the new study were mailed to those, usually next of kin, who were originally contacted in connection with the "Portraits of Grief" project; 770 such people were subsequently telephoned for interviews.
The way many of us live today can cause the threaded connections of kith and kin to separate and thin, almost to disappear.
