query re. terminology

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Wilson asks with regard to a comment by Haviland in a text:
"Would not matrilateral cross cousin just be ego's mother's brother's
offspring -- and patrilateral cross cousin be ego's father's sister's
offspring."

Wilson is quite correct. A matrilateral cross cousin is just ego's mother's
brother's offspring. Marriage systems based on matrilateral cross counsin
marriage (from the perspective of a male ego) have had, of course, major
importance in alliance theory.

D. Read
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