Por un lado, en los matrimonios entre primos de segundo grado, la gradacion patrilineal se identifica en la preponderancia de los matrimonios entre primos paralelos
patrilaterales, ratificando una linea consanguinea
patrilateral masculina.
The union with the
patrilateral parallel cousin is the first possible form of family endogamy [5,6,7].
Patricia Draper and Christine Haney, '
Patrilateral Bias among a Traditionally Egalitarian People: Ju/'hoansi Naming Practice', Ethnology, 44:3 (Summer 2005), pp.243-59.
In practice, this system results in a strong bias toward distinguishing between one's matrilateral and one's
patrilateral kin for the purposes of inheritance.
We do not know for sure, but we suggest that future researchers might look to Bulosan's publishers as the source of a number of
patrilateral dimensions to what ended up being Laughter.
Among muslims, both in India and Pakistan, all types of cousin marriages (i.e, matrilateral and
patrilateral parallel and cross cousin marriages) are contracted, with first cousin marriages being most common of all [14].
Unlike on the mainland, most people on Pororan had moved at least once, and many had moved much more often between houses and house sites to which they had access on the grounds of matrilineal or
patrilateral relations.
In order to amass wealth of this scale and organize its transfer, grooms (together with their close
patrilateral kin) draw on the fact that they have previously assisted other men in their efforts at producing bridewealth and can now call on their assistance to support the groom in question.
For example, marriages that we likely consider incestuous but others don't include marriage between first cousins, especially
patrilateral parallel cousin marriage (where the children of two brothers marry) seen in some parts of the Middle East and Africa.
Parents who make such marital arrangements proudly say, as paraphrased by Stenning (1959), "If you betrothed to your cross cousin or your
patrilateral parallel cousin, does not this retain pride, since they are more closely related and the lineage group has not scattered" (p.84).