matrilateral cross-cousin marriage

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• Cousin marriage — Charles Darwin and his wife Emma were first cousins. Cousin marriage is marriage between two cousins. In various jurisdictions and cultures, such marriages range from being considered ideal and actively encouraged, to being uncommon but still… …   Wikipedia

• cross-cousin — /kraws kuz euhn, kros /, n. a cousin who is the child either of one s mother s brother or one s father s sister. Cf. parallel cousin. [1930 35] * * * ▪ anthropology       the child of one s mother s brother or father s sister. Scholars of kinship …   Universalium

• Matrilateral — The term Matrilateral describes kin (relatives) on the mother s side . Social anthropologists have underlined that even where a social group demonstrates a strong emphasis on one or other line of inheritance (matrilineal or patrilineal),… …   Wikipedia

• Structural anthropology — is based on Claude Levi Strauss s idea that people think about the world in terms of binary opposites such as high and low, inside and outside, person and animal, life and death and that every culture can be understood in terms of these opposites …   Wikipedia

• Alliance theory — The Alliance Theory (or General Theory of Exchanges) is the name given to the structural method of studying kinship relations. It finds its origins in Claude Lévi Strauss s Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949), and is opposed to the… …   Wikipedia