tS=Disputes, especially over land rights, traditionally have been a very real part of village life, and in theory mutual defense has been binding on close <b>agnates</b>. <br><br>The most popular of all themes is a particular type of current event, the "honor crime" in which, typically, an unchaste woman is killed by a male <b>agnate</b>.&tQ=An <b>agnate</b> is:&tC=A cousin|A relative from the father's side|A relative from the mother's side|A tribal leader|A young virile man&cC=2&fB=n <b>agnate</b> is a relative from the father's side. <b>Agnate</b> can also be an adjective describing a relative from the father's side of the family. <b>Agnate</b> is pronounced AG-nayt.
