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Chapter Two. The Social Structure and its Units |
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taboo on killing agnates, but not affines |
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The taboo on the killing of agnatic kinsmen and covillagers did not extend to affines living in a different village. A marriage alliance linking two chiefly houses was no guarantee of permanent peace between the domains concerned, and in many cases intermarriage alternated with warfare. In a recent feud between Niaunu and the village of Ninu, for instance, the son of a Ninu woman married in Niaunu was killed by Ninu warriors, that is, by men of his mother's natal village. |
