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class B and B l , the children of B and C 1 will belong 'to the class 

 C and C l , and the children of C and A 1 will belong to the class A 

 and A 1 , and through these cycles the generations pass. 



The kinship system is further developed in this family, and 

 gives brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, 

 grandfathers and grandmothers, and grandsons and daughters. It 

 also gives aunts and uncles. The children call their father and 

 father's brothers, all fathers, and their mother and mother's sisters, 

 all mothers ; but their father's sisters are aunts, and their mother's 

 brothers are uncles. The children of their father's brothers they 

 call brothers, the children of their mother's sisters they call sisters; 

 but the children of their father's sisters they call cousins, and the 

 children of their mother's brothers they call cousins. 



This family is widely spread in Australia and elsewhere, and the 

 kinship system is still more widely spread, as it exists among all the 

 tribes of North and South America, in parts of Europe, Asia, 

 and Africa, and in some of the islands of the sea. 



The Punaluan system of kinship is known to exist, but the form 

 of communal marriage is not known. The Malayan system of 

 kinship and marriage is known. Its simplest and most common 

 form only has been given. 



The development of this into the polygamic and monogamic 

 systems of marriage is accomplished in diverse ways among many 

 tribes. The group of husbands and group of wives constituting 

 one family comes to be very large and narrower restrictions are 

 adopted — thus, sons of one mother will be married in a group to 

 the daughters of another mother, and various other restrictive 

 regulations will appear, but all involving a common principle, 

 namely, that the husbands and wives have no choice. Selection is 

 made by legal appointment. 



Legal appointment develops into individual selection through 

 three processes : 



First. The parties interested, consulting their own wishes, elope; 

 and marriage by elopement, though illegal at first, is made legal on 



