Anomale huwelijken: familie, macht en manipulatie in Andalusië, 1871-1975

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The obscurity of cousin marriage in the ethnography of southern Europe contrasts sharply with the prominence of close marriage in the anthropological record of "kin-ordered" societies. In the former case, it is tacitly assumed that cousin marriage is insignificant because of the ban on consanguinity in marriage, while in the latter case a congruence between preferential marriage rules & actual behavior has often been taken for granted. Combining a focus on marriage behavior with an analysis of kinship ideology, the social significance of cousin marriage in an Andalusian (Spain) township where it is the most striking instance of manipulation of kinship obligations through marriage is demonstrated. There is a clustering of cousin marriages in two powerful families who until recently dominated town life. An ingeneous combination of endogamous & exogamous marriages operated to keep wealth & power, honor & reputation within family ranks. The manipulation of kinship ideology in cousin marriage is facilitated by the ambiguous nature of the cousin category in a bilateral descent system. 1 Table, 24 References. HA