The Western Apache and Cross-Cousin Marriage

This article draws on the ethnography of South African Bantu speakers to model an archaeologically useful relationship between pollution beliefs and marriage. Typically, pollution beliefs intensify with more complex marital alliances, first with the increasing significance of relations between wives and their cattle-linked siblings, and then with a shift towards a preference for cousin marriage. The article applies the model to the Early Iron Age (ad 650–1050) record and concludes that Early Iron Age agriculturists practised non-kin marriage, but that a high bridewealth, and possibly hypogamous marriage, generated considerable structural tension in Early Iron Age society.

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Cousin Marriage

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology ◽

10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2350 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1-2

Author(s):

Morgan Clarke

Keyword(s):

Cousin Marriage

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The practice of Cousin Marriage in the Community of Kalola Village, Pasangkayu Regency, West Sulawesi

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC LAW AND SOCIETY ◽

10.24239/ijcils.vol2.iss2.23 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 71-82

Author(s):

Muhammd Rizal Soulisa ◽

Lukman S. Thahir ◽

Malkan Malkan

Keyword(s):

Negative Impact ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Large Family ◽

Theory Approach ◽

Political Systems ◽

Cousin Marriage ◽

Long Time ◽

Negative Impacts ◽

The Impact ◽

Grounded Theory Approach

The aim of this paper is to discuss the practice of cousin marriage in the community of Kalola Village, Pasangkayu Regency, West Sulawesi. This study uses qualitative methods and data was gathered through observation, in-depth interviews, and written material. Data analysis was analyzed using grounded theory approach. the background of a cousin marriage in the Mandar tribe community in Kalola Village is a tradition that has been strong for a long time in the community, in addition to the factor of maintaining a large family and protecting property. Meanwhile, the impact of cousin marriage includes both positive and negative impacts. The positive impact is to reduce the number of conflicts in the community and strengthen local political systems, while the negative impact is the breakdown of kinship in the event of conflict and divorce and health risks.

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JERVELL AND LANGE-NIELSEN SYNDROME

The Professional Medical Journal ◽

10.29309/tpmj/2011.18.04.2654 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 18 (04) ◽

pp. 638-643

Author(s):

AMMAR ANWER ◽

ALI SHAKEEL ◽

M. HAMAYUN IKRAM ◽

Shahroona Masud Zaman

Keyword(s):

School Children ◽

Deaf Children ◽

Control Group ◽

Qtc Interval ◽

Healthy Children ◽

Impaired Hearing ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Cousin Marriage ◽

Consanguineous Marriages ◽

Deaf School

Objective: This study was carried out to find out the prevalence of Jervell and Lange Nielsen Syndrome (JLNS) in deaf school children for impaired hearing and to correlate this with consanguineous marriages. Setup: Schools for deaf and dumb children and Sheikh Zayed Medical College, Rahim Yar Khan. Design: Cross sectional, case control study. Period: 2006 - 2007. Methods: Electrocardiographs (ECG’s) of 114 congenitally deaf school children (ages 4-20 years) and also of 23 healthy children with normal hearing function of same age group were recorded. The corrected QT (QTc) interval of all 137 ECGs was evaluated by Bazett’s formula. Mean QTc of healthy children was taken as reference of normal QTc interval. The deaf children with normal QTc were labeled as control group. Patients with long QTc were further evaluated for JLNS by applying Schwartz’s criteria. We also calculated the relationship of the positive cases to consanguineous marriages. Results: We found that 28 deaf children out of 114 cases had QTc intervals longer than 0.44 seconds. This interval was significantly longer [P=0.008] than the QT interval in control group. As per Schwartz’s criteria, 15 out of 28 LQTs cases scored high points (3.5 to 5.5). The presence of consanguineous marriage was 100% in first pedigree of these 28 children. Conclusions: JLNS (an alarming arrhythmic disease associated with congenital deafness) is significantly present (24.6%) in Rahim Yar Khan’s deaf school children. The presence of cousin marriage was 100% in first pedigree of these children.

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