{"id":78,"date":"2011-09-07T17:24:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T22:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=78"},"modified":"2012-02-08T17:26:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T22:26:21","slug":"you-call-your-cousin-your-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2011\/09\/07\/you-call-your-cousin-your-father\/","title":{"rendered":"You call your cousin your father?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>How do you refer to your father\u2019s sister\u2019s son?\u00a0 Most of us would call him our cousin.\u00a0 But, surprisingly enough, people groups like the Crow (a Native American group) would call that man their father.\u00a0 You see, they are matrilineal, so they trace their ancestry only through their mother\u2019s side of the family.\u00a0\u00a0 They then consider themselves to be more closely related to their mother\u2019s side of the family, and so refer to most of the men on their father\u2019s side of the family with the same term they use to refer to their father.\u00a0 So their cousin and their cousin\u2019s son would both be called \u201cfather.\u201d\u00a0 And to make it even more interesting, they would call their mother\u2019s brother\u2019s son (another cousin) \u201cson.\u201d\u00a0 Confused yet?\u00a0 So was I.<\/p>\n

So why am I telling you this?\u00a0 To make your brain hurt?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 This is one of many things I am learning here at New Tribes Mission\u2019s Missionary Training Center in Missouri.\u00a0 Am I planning on living with the Crow people and translating the Bible into the Crow language?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 But there are other people groups around the world who think of their family members in the same way, so as part of our training here we are learning the different ways people around the world categorize their family members.\u00a0 When I live with a West African people group, how they think of their different family members is just one of many thing I will have to learn as I try to understand life from their point of view.\u00a0 Just think \u2013 how might your life be impacted if you called one cousin \u201cfather\u201d and another one \u201cson?\u201d\u00a0 And by the way \u2013 another cousin is called \u201cbrother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thank you for your continued prayers for me as I continue to learn all that I can here in preparation of living overseas in the future.\u00a0 As you can see, there are lots of things to learn and I really appreciate your prayers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you refer to your father\u2019s sister\u2019s son?\u00a0 Most of us would call him our cousin.\u00a0 But, surprisingly enough, people groups like the Crow (a Native American group) would call that man their father.\u00a0 You see, they are matrilineal, so they trace their ancestry only through their mother\u2019s side of the family.\u00a0\u00a0 They then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-training","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}