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| group of people occupying a common dwelling |
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| group of adult kinfold who cooperate economically an in the upbringing of children, and all or most of who share a common dwelling |
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| socially recognized, stable, and enduring union between two or more adults that publicly acknowledge their rights and obligations and forms a new alliance between kin groups |
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| family consisting of parents and their children |
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| ban on sexual relations or marriage between parents and their children and their siblings |
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| marriage in which the marital unit consists of 3 or more people |
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| man married to two or more woman |
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| woman married to two or more men |
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| maternal between a man and two or more women who are sisters |
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| woman married to two or more men who are brothers |
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| marriage practice among the Nuer of Sudan in which a widow marries her dead husband's brother and in which the children ensuing from the second marriage are said to be the children of the first, dead husband |
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| presents given by the husband's family to the wife's kin before, during, or after the wedding ceremony |
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| a period of months or years before or after marriage during which the husband performs labor for his wife's parents |
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| gifts given by the wife's family to the married couple or to the husband's kin before, during, or after the wedding |
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| pattern for residence after marriage in which the couple lives with or near the wife's family |
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| living with or near the wife's parents |
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| living with or near the husband's parents |
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| living with husband's mother's brother after marriage |
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| couple alternates between living with wife's kin and husband's kin |
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| couple establishes a new independent household separate from relatives |
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| marriage preference rule in which a widow marries dead husbands brother |
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| marriage between widow and his dead wife's sister |
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