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History of kinship terminology

The use of "cousin" to refer to people classified as "sibling" by many people reflects the (culture bound) theoretical assumptions of the people who developed kin terminology. It would be useful to have a short note concerning the origin of this terminology. jha 18:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Definition

In a patrilineal culture (such as the Omaha system), cross cousins are the subject's father's sister's children. In a matrilineality (such as the Crow system), cross cousins are the subject's mother's brother's children. These are synonymous, just two ways of viewing the same relationship. If A is B's father's sister's child, then B is A's mother's brother's child. I'm removing that line. Nik42 22:35, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Middle Eastern parallel cousin marriage

What exactly is the usefulness or even point of this entire subsection? It's not particularly clearly written and it reads like a bad trivia or an advertisement of the literature it is sourced from. It seriously brings no relevant information here.

I propose it be deleted. Acolossus | Talk | Contributions 16:59, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cross cousin or cross-cousin?

The title of this page says "cross cousin", but the text uses "cross-cousin" throughout. Must the page be renamed? Jalwikip (talk) 16:09, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know that there's consistency in the anthropological literature. AnonMoos (talk) 21:27, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]