Abkhaz people

Japanese: アブハーズ族 - あぶはーずぞく
Abkhaz people

…Among the fictitious kinship systems, wet nurses are one based on nursing. They were distributed in the ancient Orient, ancient Greece, Rome, medieval Europe, the Caucasus, Western Asia, India, China, Korea, Japan, Malay, Polynesia, and the ancient Inca. This distribution shows that it is an institution characteristic of ancient civilizations and their surrounding areas. Moreover, wet nurses were usually practiced by royalty, rulers, and aristocrats. For example, in Britain, it was customary for royalty and the upper classes to nurse their children up until the Victorian era. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Abkhaz people" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…擬制的親族のうち,哺乳にもとづくものに乳母がある。古代オリエント,古代ギリシア,ローマ,中世ヨーロッパ,カフカス,西アジア,インド,中国,朝鮮,日本,マレー,ポリネシア,古代インカに分布していた。この分布からみて古代文明とその周囲に特徴的な制度である。しかも乳母は王族や支配者,貴族のところで行われるのがふつうで,たとえばイギリスでは,王族や上流階級ではビクトリア時代にいたるまで,子どもを哺育させるのが習慣だった。…

※「アブハーズ族」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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