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Cross-cousin marriagesarticle 1925 • Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland) & Dudley Buxton, L. H.
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
Marriage customs and rules are analyzed in an attempt to answer the question...'why should a man (in the past at any rate) have been compelled to marry his mother's brother's daughter and/or his father's sister's darghter.' The tentative conclusion r...