ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tunxis Community College, Cousin Marriage, Exogamy
6 Jan 2021
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Marriage purpose cement a political relationship between families. Love was a secondary matter if it entered the equation at all. Will of individual partners was pitted against political relations of their families. Among tribes of low culture there is but one means known of keeping up permanent alliance and that means is intermarriage. Exogamy, the marriage out of ones group, enables a growing tribe to keep itself compact by constant union between its spreading clans. It enables a group to overmatch any number of intermarrying groups, isolated and helpless. Again and again savage tribes must have had before their minds, the simple practical alternative between marrying out and being killed out. The long term establishment between groups must have been adaptive. Broad network created between groups for stalling conflict. Involved in early forms of social organization is an idea that was further built upon by. Gives daughters to group b and take group b"s daughters unto itself: this.
