Namibia and Mexico: Comparison

quite common in Mexico to receive godparents. While these people are not real family they are there to help out if something happens. Bushmen take a different approach. Bushmen have fictive kin. These are people with the same name as one of your relatives in an alternating generations from you. For example if someone had the same name as your mother you could call that person "mother". This system seem quite confusing especially since there is only around 35 names per gender in the bushman language. (Global Sociology 148) One of the largest differences between bushman and Mexican families is their structure. Mexican households are very hierar
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