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| a child's biological father |
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| one's socially recognized father; not necessarily the genitor |
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| children of two brothers or two sisters |
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| children of a brother and a sister |
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| marriage outside a given group |
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| forbidden sexual relations with a close relative |
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| marriage of people from the same group |
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| socially recognized mother of a child |
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| a substantial marital gift from the husband and his kin to the wife and her kin |
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| substantial gifts to husband's family from wife's group |
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| more than two spouses simultaneously, aka polygamy |
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| man has more than one wife at a time |
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| woman has more than one husband at the same time |
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| widower who marries sister of his deceased wife |
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| widow marries brother of her deceased husband |
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