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godparent
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godparent
a person who stands sponsor to another at baptism


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In many societies, forms of fictive kinship like godparenthood that incorporate outsiders are as strong as blood ties (and this was how, in fact, many Kosovar Albanians saw their relationship with NATO).
In devoting most of the rest of the book to comparing these groups to whites and to each other, King has many fresh things to say about free-colored marria ges and families, manumission practices, entrepreneurship, housing, religiousness, color consciousness, godparenthood, status aspirations, social mobility, and sexual behavior.
Haas has organized the book according to stages in the life cycle, from analyzing decisions to have children, to conception, pregnancy, birth ritual, godparenthood, wet-nursing, early childhood, and, as happened all too often, the death of relatively young children.
 
 
 
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