But landowners were often unable to meet their expenditures from the income of their limited holdings, even if they practiced single inheritance.
Finally, studies highlighting residential arrangements were more able than previous approaches to incorporate other anthropological concerns such as gender, rules about symbolic and practical divisions of space, inheritance practices, informal domestic relations, and subjective and experiential aspects of place.
With regard to inheritance practices that women inherit the house while men inherit the land [ 36].
This paper reports on the prevalence of HIV and the practice of widow inheritance at the time of the baseline assessment for 1,987 widows who reported their inheritance status at baseline and were tested for HIV infection.
We sought to estimate the prevalence of HIV infection among Luo widows in relation to the two types of the practice of WI (inheritance by a husband's relative or by a non-relative), and the two purposes of WI (inheritance for companionship or to observe a sexual ritual).
Families with a long tradition of success in examinations and official service were increasingly preoccupied with strategies for ensuring the perpetuation of their elite status and countering the inexorable division of family estates stemming from the Chinese practice of partible inheritance.
This is the first epidemiological investigation of the association between HIV status and the practice of widow inheritance.
Our results showed that the majority (63%) of Luo widows in our sample were HIV positive, and the majority (56.3%) participated in the practice of widow inheritance.
Data analyses involved calculating the prevalence and 95% confidence interval of HIV infection and describing the practice of widow inheritance among Luo widows.
