Honor meant simply the respect of the local "honor group" - the family, the extended clan, the tribe, the religious sect.

But even if the extended clan fosters resentment in Afghanistan, the family also helps fortify a fragile presidency.

Does an extended clan mean nothing to you?

His relatives, an extended clan, are demanding that he keep power over the 250,000-member Mamprusi tribe.

In Africa, loyalty to the extended clan or ethnic group is often far stronger than to the nation-state.

The whole extended clan depends upon their young maid - to bring ice, to bring affection.

When someone is killed, revenge can be exacted not just against the killer himself, but all males in his extended clan.

Both became family business patriarchs whose operations rely heavily on an extended clan in pivotal positions.

Aside from his secret police, he held power by filling the government's upper ranks with members of his extended clan.

Mr. Hussein told his biographer that he did not miss his father growing up in an extended clan.