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Relationships with the family grouping of one's mother (matrilateral relations) were also very important.

There is no preference for marriages between matrilateral parallel cousins.

Thus, children associate more freely with matrilateral cousins.

If the bride were the groom's matrilateral cross cousin, they would be living 'avunculocally'.

So, a strongly patrilineal orientation will be complemented by matrilateral ties with the mother's kin.

I shall not discuss in general, even summarily, the part played in social relationships by marriage ties and matrilateral kinship, nor by neighbourhood.

According to some theories, in these kinship systems a man marries his matrilateral cross-cousin due to associating her with his nurturant mother.

However, in South India it is common for Hindu cross cousins to marry, with matrilateral cross-cousin (mother's brother's daughter) marriages being especially favored.

To quote Leach: "The evident importance attached to matrilateral and affinal kinship connections is not so much explained as explained away."

But in the commentary he corrects his interpretation by placing this example quite rightly with all those he quotes of marriages with a matrilateral cross-cousin.

Groups like the Kachin exhibiting matrilateral cross-cousin marriage do not exchange women in circular structures; where such structures do exist they are unstable.

Sheikh Darod is, in turn, asserted to have married a woman from the Dir, thus establishing matrilateral ties with the Samaale main stem.

Fortune provided significant insights into the consequences of matrilateral and patrilateral cross-cousin marriage in advance of work by Claude Levi-Strauss.

Rather, a person was a Sun if he or she was within three degrees of matrilateral separation from the ruling matriline's eldest female Sun (called the "White Woman").

If the marriage of Ego's father is a matrilateral one, Ego's father's father is Ego's mother's brother's father's sister's husband; and Ego's mother's brother.

His family group's ward, the ward being the primary unit of village administration, is at the center, with matrilateral kin in a ward on the western side and strangers on the eastern.

For instance, during a public debate between a woman and her maternal kin over her right to inherit her father's coconuts, the woman's matrilateral kinsmen shouted at her, "You are nothing but a woman!

The second form of exchange within elementary structures is called generalised exchange, meaning that a man can only marry either his MBD (matrilateral cross-cousin marriage) or his FZD (patrilateral cross-cousin marriage).

By 'rules' we shall understand as out topic both such recognized prescriptions and prescriptions as rules of inheritance and exogamy, and such normative processes as the rule of matrilateral fission within the patrilineal family.

However, matrilateral generalised exchange poses a risk as group A depends on receiving a woman from a group that it has not itself given a woman to, producing a less immediate obligation to reciprocate compared to a restricted exchange system.

From a structural perspective, matrilateral cross-cousin marriage is superior to its patrilateral counterpart; the latter has less potential to produce social cohesion since its exchange cycles are shorter (the direction of wife exchange is reversed in each successive generation).

Likewise, in Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart, the hero, Okonkwo is forced into exile from his own ancestral village to the village of his matrilateral kin who should, by rights, treat him with maternal fondness.

Click on image to inlarge: Figure 1: Diagram Showing the Developmental Cycle of the Joint Family (from 1949a, p. 76) He takes up Gluckman's argument that Fortes is mistaken to consider matrilateral origin of importance in segmentation.