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Article: Marriage networks among Australian Aboriginal populations.
- Article from:
- Australian Aboriginal Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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Most people do not marry people who are too close, household members for example. However, nor do they marry people who are too far, such as total strangers to themselves or their family. In other words, they typically marry people with whom they have some sort of previous connection. In certain post-industrial settings, and perhaps elsewhere as well, prior linkages relating to employment, schooling, religious affiliation and so on undoubtedly intervene in the orientation of marriage choices. However, in most places, most of the time, such considerations remain subordinate to the role played by other types of relationship, namely those deriving from kinship and marriage ...