ABSTRACT
The essential feature of the relationship between grandchild and grandparent is that they can tease and joke with each other and each other's spouses. Grandparents are addressed by personal name or, in the case of grandmothers, by the clan name used for them by their affines. The death of a grandchild is felt as a heavy blow by grandparents of both lines. But they do not have to undergo special mourning rites as parents have to. A grandparent does not normally discipline a grandchild. A paternal grandmother has no command over her son's children. The first-born son among Namoos, in whom the cleavage between parents and children is focused, is his grandparents' particular favourite. Within the lineage inter-personal relations of grandparent and grandchild are not extended beyond the inner lineage—that is, the range within which generation differences between individuals are recognized.
