The most conspicuous character of ethnogamic union, as manifested in the type tribe, is its absolute confinement to the consanguineal group.
It is noteworthy that the kinship terminology is strikingly meager; also that while the records suggest various significant points, the material is hardly rich enough to warrant complete synthesis of the consanguineal system.
The matter is usually complicated by double relationships, but it will readily be seen that the consanguineal attraction would hardly be perceptible beyond the degree of third cousins.
There is no variation of the social monotony, and the result is socially the same as closeconsanguineal interbreeding.
It may also be a patruate cousin-group and an avunculate cousin-group; and in general, every member of a brother-group has the same consanguineal relation to persons outside of the group as that of every other member.
Do the local and descriptive names of "the clans or consanguineal bands," also descend in the female line?
They were also "clans or consanguineal bands," each "usually named from some town or camp it had once occupied.
Marriage between members of the same gens is forbidden, but consanguineal marriages between persons of different gentes are permitted.
Each gens is a body of consanguineal kindred in the female line, and each gens is allied to other gentes by consanguineal kinship through the male line, and by affinity through marriage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consanguineal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
