Social structure

". . . marriage and extramarital relations with affinal relatives [in the same consanguineal group as Ego] are . . . prohibited" (310)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Yule’s Q	Supported	p<.01	.88	`UNKNOWN`

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Ember, Melvin	1975	Childhood familiarity theory predicts that the more community endogamy, the more likely the prohibition of first-cousin marriage.	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Goody, Jack	1970	"Hawaiian kin terms . . . are associated with the prohibition on [cross] cousin marriage" (136)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1975	First cousin marriage is more common in middle-sized societies undergoing depopulation.	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Goody, Jack	1970	The following variables are dependent upon diverging devolution (transmission of property to both males and females): greater control of womens' marriage (prohibition of premarital sex, endogamy, father's brother's daughter marriage, monogamy, alternative residence) and by extension Eskimo kinship terminology which isolates the sibling group form "cousins" (296)	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1975	Inbreeding theory suggests that societies with smaller average communities are less likely to permit cousin marriage than societies with larger average communities.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author