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How to use cross-cousin in a sentence

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Marriage unions that create family alliances and concentrate land, wealth, and status, such as preferential cross-cousin marriage, are favored in many Micronesian societies.
Marriages are usually arranged, and cross-cousin marriages are preferred.
A Dravidian kinship system is defined by two properties consistent with a rule of bilateral cross-cousin marriage.
One possible explanation for using a separate term to mother's brother might be that under cross-cousin marriage, the ego becomes closer as affinal kin.
Examples from Classical Literature
Tsoay was one of the youngest of their group, Buck's own cross-cousin and near-brother.
Certain of the features which follow from the cross-cousin marriage may be the result of another marriage regulation.
One feature, however, of the system of relationship is just such as would follow from the cross-cousin marriage.
These usages are exactly such as would follow from the cross-cousin marriage.
Similarly, a woman calls her cross-cousin she-chay-she, while her husbands brother and her sisters husband are called she-chay.
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