Sister exchange
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sister-exchange-187-4446289
title:
Sister exchange
text:
Sister exchange is a type of marriage agreement where two sets of siblings marry each other. In order to get married, a man needs to persuade his sister to marry the bride's brother. It is practised as a primary method of organising marriages in 3% of the world's societies: in Australia, Melanesia, Amazonia and Sub-Saharan Africa; and can replace other methods in 1.4% of the societies. Researchers disagree about the reasoning behind sister exchange but most believe that it is some type of recipr
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of marriage
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_exchange
date created:
2006-10-04T04:56:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T12:41:13Z
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