Consanguine Family

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Consanguine Family

 

according to the American scholar L. Morgan, an ancient form of communal family in which marriage relationships were forbidden between relatives of different generations but permitted among siblings and cousins of all degrees of kinship. The existence of the consanguine family was based on data from the ethnology of the Polynesians (it was ascertained in the 20th century that this data was erroneous). Most modern Soviet scholars do not recognize the consanguine family and consider the intermarriage of two exogamous clans to be the most ancient form of communal marriage.

REFERENCE

Pershits, A. I. “Rannie formy sem’i i braka v osveshchenii sovetskoi etnograficheskoi nauki.” Voprosy istorii, 1967, no. 2.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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