Cross Cousin is an anthropological term describing kin who are in the same descent group as the subject (ego) and are from the parent's opposite-sexed sibling. Simply put, a cross cousin is a first cousin who is the child of the mother's brother or of the father's sister. Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθÏωπος = human) consists of the study of humankind (see genus Homo). ... This article is about the domestic group. ... Kinship and descent is one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology. ...
A chart showing family members in relation to Ego
The role of cross cousins is especially important in some cultures (such as the Iroquois system) where marriage is promoted between them and the subject (ego). In a patrilineal culture (such as the Omaha system), cross cousins are the subject's father's sister's children. In a matrilineality (such as the Crow system), cross cousins are the subject's mother's brother's children. Iroquois kinship (also known as Bifurcate merging) is a kinship system used to define family. ... Patrilineality (a. ... Omaha kinship is a kinship system used to define family. ... Matrilineality is a system in which one belongs to ones mothers lineage. ... Crow kinship is a kinship system used to define family. ...
Kinship and descent is one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology. ... A family of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups linked through descent (demonstrated or stipulated) from a common ancestor, marriage or adoption. ... Genealogy is the study and tracing of family pedigrees. ...
Sources and External links
Matrilineal and Patrilineal Kin at the University of Manitoba
Cross-Cousin Marriage at the University of Manitoba
It is simple, your cousin is the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
Then of course the children of your mother's sister or your father's brother are ortho-cousins (parallel cousins) or the children of your mother's brother or father's sister are cross-cousins.
Your second cousins are the people in your family who have the same great-grandparents as you., but not the same grandparents.
Ego's crosscousins (in yellow) are distinguished from his parallel cousins (in green) as the children of opposite and same sexed siblings, respectively.
Thus for matrilateral crosscousin marriage, a man marries his mother's brother's daughter, although his wife is marrying patrilaterally, i.e., to her father's sister's son.
Patrilateral crosscousin marriage results in a system which can be viewed as a combination of both of the others systems.
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