226 Consanguine Family. 



makes the children of my several brothers and 

 sisters my sons and daughters : the reason lies 

 in the consanguine family, in which all my sis 

 ters and my brothers wives are my wives. Were 

 I a female, the foregoing relationships would be 

 the same; for, in the consanguine family, my 

 several brothers being my husbands, their chil 

 dren by other wives would be my step- children, 

 which relationship being unrecognized, they nat 

 urally fall into the category of my sons and 

 daughters. Every relationship of the Malayan 

 system is explicable on the assumption of the con 

 sanguine family, and no other ; consequently the 

 system is evidence conclusive of such a family. 



Under the Turanian system of relationship, 

 while my brothers children continue to be mine 

 as well as his, and mine his as well as mine, there 

 is a departure from the Malayan system in mak 

 ing my sister s children my nephews and nieces, 

 and my children her nephews and nieces. From 

 this initial difference between the two systems fol 

 low all other differences. Without noticing them, 

 let us ask at once what kind of family does the 

 Turanian system of consanguinity presuppose as 

 its basis ? And the answer is clear : A family 

 differing from the consanguine only in its pro 

 hibition of marriage between own brothers and 



