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the ethnological notebooks of karl marx - Marxists Internet Archive

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j) Ippai marries his cousin Kapota u. Kubbi marries his cousin Ippata; <strong>the</strong>irchildren are respectively M urri u. M ata u. Kumbo u. Buta; vo n diesen d.M urris marry <strong>the</strong> Butas, second cousins, etc In this condition <strong>the</strong> classesnot only intermarry constantly, but are com pelled to do so through thisorganisation upon sex. - T he organisation into classes seems to have beendirected to <strong>the</strong> single object o f breaking up <strong>the</strong> intermarriage o f bro<strong>the</strong>rs andsisters. - Innovation: allow ing each triad o f gentes to intermarry w ith eacho<strong>the</strong>r, to a lim ited extent; and secondly, to marry into classes, not beforeperm itted so Iguana-Murri can now marry M ata in <strong>the</strong> Kangaroo gens,32 his collateral sister etc Each | class o f males in each triad o f gentes seemsnow to be allow ed one additional class o f females in <strong>the</strong> 2 remaininggentes o f <strong>the</strong> same triad, from w hich <strong>the</strong>y w ere before excluded.W herever <strong>the</strong> middle or low er st

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