Cross Cousin

Traditionally, Huaorani families engage in endogamy -- especially cross-cousin marriages. ❋ Suzan Crane (2011)

Finally he decided to go and visit his cross-cousin Sun. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sun's wife answered and said that Sun wasn't home, but would his cross-cousin like to come in and wait for him? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Usually the cultures where these kinship questions are a going concern - and also studied - are places where marriages are arranged i.e. matrilateral cross-cousin unions, so not just arranged, but very narrowly defined as to who can marry whom. ❋ Field Notes (2008)

: Im not entirely certain about all those cross-cousin links Myste was finding. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2003)

Tsoay was one of the youngest of their group, Buck's own cross-cousin and near-brother. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)

He did not know which of eighty-odd relations "cousin" meant with respect to Leda, though he supposed that she must be a first cross-cousin. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1957)

Many clans set up special marriage rules for clan members, and after some time cross-cousin marriages between two or three families were legally allowed; such marriages tended to fasten bonds between clans and to prevent the loss of property by marriage. ❋ Wolfram Eberhard (1949)

Many cultures prefer cross-cousin marriage (e.g., a male's mother's brother's / father's sister's daughter); others emphasize parallel-cousins (father's brother's daughter). ❋ Unknown (2010)

A French curéis a parish priest; so, in a Church of England context, the correct translation would be ` vicar '-- a perfect cross-cousin marriage. ❋ Unknown (1982)